Description
Thomas Hardy's darkly atmospheric, psychologically complex novel—following Eustacia Vye, the passionate, unfulfilled woman who is destroyed by her desire to escape the Egdon Heath that Hardy renders as one of the most powerful presences in all of Victorian fiction—is one of the most formally ambitious and most emotionally powerful of Hardy's Wessex novels. Written with his characteristic combination of landscape poetry and tragic inevitability, this is essential reading for every serious student of Victorian literature. A significant and enduring work.
