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The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

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Contents

  1. Preface
  2. I. A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
  3. II. Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
  4. III. The Custom of the Country
  5. IV. The Halt on the Turnpike Road
  6. V. Perplexity among Honest People
  7. VI. The Figure against the Sky
  8. VII. Queen of Night
  9. VIII. Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
  10. IX. Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
  11. X. A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
  12. XI. The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
  13. I. Tidings of the Comer
  14. II. The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
  15. III. How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
  16. IV. Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
  17. V. Through the Moonlight
  18. VI. The Two Stand Face to Face
  19. VII. A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
  20. VIII. Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
  21. I. “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is”
  22. II. The New Course Causes Disappointment
  23. III. The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
  24. IV. An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
  25. V. Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
  26. VI. Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
  27. VII. The Morning and the Evening of a Day
  28. VIII. A New Force Disturbs the Current
  29. I. The Rencounter by the Pool
  30. II. He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
  31. III. She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
  32. IV. Rough Coercion Is Employed
  33. V. The Journey across the Heath
  34. VI. A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
  35. VII. The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
  36. VIII. Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
  37. I. “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery”
  38. II. A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
  39. III. Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
  40. IV. The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
  41. V. An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
  42. VI. Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
  43. VII. The Night of the Sixth of November
  44. VIII. Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
  45. IX. Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
  46. I. The Inevitable Movement Onward
  47. II. Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
  48. III. The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
  49. IV. Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation

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