The Return of the NativeWordsworth Editions, 1995 - 337 psl. With an Introduction and Notes by Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Return of the Native is widely recognised as the most representative of Hardy's Wessex novels. He evokes the dismal presence and menacing beauty of Egdon Heath - reaching out to touch the lives and fate of all who dwell on it. The central figure is Clym Yeobright, the returning 'native' and the story tells of his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye. As the narrative unfolds and character after character is driven to self-destruction the presence of the Heath becomes all-embracing, while Clym becomes a travelling preacher in an attempt to assuage his guilt. |
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THE THREE WOMEN | 3 |
A Face on which Time makes but little Impression | 5 |
Humanity appears upon the Scene Hand in Hand with Trouble | 8 |
The Custom of the Country | 13 |
The Halt on the Turnpike Road | 30 |
Perplexity among honest People | 34 |
The Figure against the Sky | 44 |
Queen of Night | 55 |
The Morning and the Evening of a Day 180 | 191 |
the cloSED DOOR | 197 |
The Rencounter by the Pool | 199 |
He is set upon by Adversities but he sings a Song | 204 |
She goes out to Battle against Depression | 212 |
Rough Coercion is employed | 222 |
The Journey across the Heath | 227 |
A Conjuncture and its Result upon the Pedestrian | 231 |
Those who are found where there is said to be Nobody | 60 |
Love leads a shrewd Man into Strategy | 64 |
A desperate Attempt at Persuasion 72 20 | 72 |
The Dishonesty of an honest Woman | 79 |
THE ARRIVAL | 87 |
Tidings of the Comer | 89 |
The People at BloomsEnd make ready | 92 |
How a little Sound produced a great Dream | 96 |
Eustacia is led on to an Adventure | 100 |
The Two stand Face to Face | 113 |
A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness | 122 |
Firmness is discovered in a gentle Heart | 129 |
THE FASCINATION | 139 |
My Mind to Me a Kingdom is | 141 |
The new Course causes Disappointment | 145 |
The first Act in a timeworn Drama | 151 |
An Hour of Bliss and many Hours of Sadness | 163 |
Sharp Words are spoken and a Crisis ensues | 169 |
Yeobright goes and the Breach is complete | 174 |
The tragic Meeting of two old Friends | 239 |
Eustacia bears of good Fortune and beholds Evil | 245 |
THE DISCOVERY | 253 |
Wherefore is Light given to Him that is in Misery | 255 |
A lurid Light breaks in upon a darkened Understanding | 261 |
Eustacia dresses Herself on a black Morning | 268 |
The Ministrations of a halfforgotten One | 275 |
An old Move inadvertently repeated | 279 |
Thomasin argues with her Cousin and He writes a Letter | 284 |
The Night of the Sixth of November | 289 |
Rain Darkness and anxious Wanderers | 296 |
Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together | 304 |
The Inevitable Movement onward | 315 |
Thomasin walks in a green Place by the Roman Road | 322 |
Cheerfulness again asserts Itself at BloomsEnd | 329 |
Glossary | 339 |
Notes to the text | 345 |