{"product_id":"2940014400411","title":"The Return of the Native (THE GREAT CLASSICS LIBRARY)","description":"With its deeply flawed heroine and its (for the time) open acknowledgement of illicit sexual relationships, The Return of the Native raised some eyebrows when it first appeared as a serial in Victorian Britain. Although he intended to structure the novel into five books, thus mirroring the classical tragic format, Hardy submitted to the tastes of the serial-reading public sufficiently to tack on a happy ending for Diggory Venn and Thomasin in a sixth book, Aftercourses. In Hardy's original conception, Venn retains his weird reddleman's character, while Thomasin lives out her days as a widow.\u003cbr\u003eHardy's choice of themes—sexual politics, thwarted desire, and the conflicting demands of nature and society—makes this a truly modern novel. Underlying these modern themes, however, is a classical sense of tragedy: Hardy scrupulously observes the three unities of time, place, and action and suggests that the struggles of those trying to escape their destinies will only hasten their destruction.","brand":"Revenant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47165867426032,"sku":"2940014400411","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014400411_p0.jpg?v=1763617017","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014400411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}