Return of the Native
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Guy Fawkes night, Diggory Venn, a reddleman dyed red from his trade, transports a young woman, Thomasin Yeobright, to her aunt’s house on Egdon Heath. Despite Venn’s love for the sweet-natured Thomasin, he agrees to secure the man of her choice, the fickle innkeeper Damon Wildeve, who delayed his marriage to Thomasin earlier that day. Wildeve is still enchanted by the beautiful Eustacia Vye, who detests the heath upon which she lives with her grandfather and longs for a glamorous life abroad. When Thomasin’s cousin, Clym Yeobright, returns from his life as a diamond merchant in Paris, Eustacia sees her chance to escape. However, Wildeve cannot let her go.
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THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
Thomas Hardy
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
Chapter 2: Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
Chapter 3: The Custom of the Country
Chapter 4: The Halt on the Turnpike Road
Chapter 5: Perplexity among Honest People
Chapter 6: The Figure against the Sky
Chapter 8: Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
Chapter 9: Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
Chapter 10: A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Chapter 11: The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
Chapter 1: Tidings of the Comer
Chapter 2: The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
Chapter 3: How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
Chapter 4: Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Chapter 5: Through the Moonlight
Chapter 6: The Two Stand Face to Face
Chapter 7: A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
Chapter 8: Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
Chapter 1: âMy Mind to Me a Kingdom Isâ
Chapter 2: The New Course Causes Disappointment
Chapter 3: The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Chapter 4: An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
Chapter 5: Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
Chapter 6: Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
Chapter 7: The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Chapter 8: A New Force Disturbs the Current
Chapter 1: The Rencounter by the Pool
Chapter 2: He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Chapter 3: She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
Chapter 4: Rough Coercion Is Employed
Chapter 5: The Journey across the Heath
Chapter 6: A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
Chapter 7: The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
Chapter 8: Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
Chapter 1: âWherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Miseryâ
Chapter 2: A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Chapter 3: Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
Chapter 4: The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
Chapter 5: An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
Chapter 6: Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
Chapter 7: The Night of the Sixth of November
Chapter 8: Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
Chapter 9: Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
Chapter 1: The Inevitable Movement Onward
Chapter 2: Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
Chapter 3: The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
Chapter 4: Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
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