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The Return of the Native
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The Return of the Native (1878) (edit title/settings)

by Thomas Hardy (Author) (edit contributors)

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A new edition of Thomas Hardy's timeless novel of two pairs of mismatched lovers. One of Hardy's classic statements about modern love, courtship, and marriage, The Return of the Native is set in the pastoral village of Egdon Heath. The fiery Eustacia Vye, wishing only for passionate love,... read more

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  • Clym Yeobright: was a sucessful diamond merchant but comes home to study to be a schoolteacher. husband to Eustacia.
  • Thomasin Yeobright: Married to Damon Wildeve and has a daughter with him. She is also referred to as Tamsin, Tamsie and Mrs. Wildeve.
  • Egdon: Place where all the story takes place
  • Eustacia: is the beauty of the book. a head strong woman who is a loner and is considered something of a witch. she was damon wildeve's lover until he married thomisan and soon after she married clym in the hope that he would take her away from the heath.
  • Diggory Venn: is the constant background person who once had a crush on thomisan and sells a red dye which in turn turns his skin red
  • Sam: Add a description of this character.
  • Damon: is the husband of thomisan but is in love whith Eustacia and was her former lover at the beginning of the book and offers to take Eustacia away with him twice to elope
  • Christian: Grandfer Cantle's son who jumps at shadows, a servant to the Yeobrights, unable to find a wife
  • Humphrey
  • Timothy Fairway
  • Susan Nunsuch
  • Tamsie
  • Mistover
  • Grandfer Cantle
  • Saint George
  • Olly Dowden
  • Johnny
  • Charley
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  • “When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? It is felt that he will not be found to be, like most of us, doing nothing in particular. There is an indefinite sense that he must be invading some region of singularity, good or bad.”

First Sentence edit see section history

A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Book I: The Three Women
1) A Face on Which Time Makes But Little Impression
2) Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
3) The Custom of the Country
4) The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5) Perplexity among Honest People
6) The Figure against the Sky
7) Queen of the Night
8) Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
9) Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
10) A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
11) The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman

Book II: The Arrival
12) Tidings of the Comer
13) The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
14) How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
15) Eustacia Is Led On to an Adventure
16) Through the Moonlight
17) The Two Stand Face to Face
18) A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
19) Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart

Book III: The Fascination
20) "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
21) The New Course Causes Disappointment
22) The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
23) An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
24) Sharp Words are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
25) Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
26) The Morning and the Evening of a Day
27) A New Force Disturbs the Current

Book IV: The Closed Door
28) The Rencounter by the Pool
29) He Is Set Upon by Adversities; but He Sings a Song
30) She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
31) Rough Coercion Is Employed
32) The Journey across the Heath
33) A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
34) The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
35) Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil

Book V: The Discovery
36) "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery
37) A Lurid Light Breaks In upon a Darkened Understanding
38) Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
39) The Ministrations of a Half-Forgotten One
40) An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
41) Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
42) The Night of the Sixth of November
43) Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
44) Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together

Book VI: Aftercourses
45) The Inevitable Movement Onward
46) Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
47) The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
48) Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 839 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Red Room, and followed by Anna Karenina.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Thomas Hardy (Author)

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Original Language: English
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Country: England
Publication Date: 1878
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Page Count: 406

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