The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native (1999, Signet Classic)

404 pages

English language

Published Sept. 15, 1999 by Signet Classic.

ISBN:
978-0-451-52738-7
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The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the bright society of Paris and, as any reader of Hardy knows, all is not smooth. He is quickly taken by and marries the one woman he should not--Eustacia Vye. The suffering that follows is mitigated somewhat by the ending.

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