The Return of the Native

About this eBook

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Credits

E-text prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D., and John Hamm

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Heathlands -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

17500

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17500

Release Date

January 12, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE — by
2. 2.Thomas Hardy — 1912 — CONTENTS — AUTHOR'S PREFACE — POSTSCRIPT — BOOK FIRST
3. 3.THE THREE WOMEN — I — A Face on Which Time Makes But Little Impression — II — Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble — III — The Custom of the Country — IV — The Halt on the Turnpike Road — V — Perplexity among Honest People — VI — The Figure against the Sky — VII — Queen of Night — VIII — Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody — IX — Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy — X — A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion — XI — The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman — BOOK SECOND
4. 4.THE ARRIVAL — I — Tidings of the Comer — II — The People at Blooms-End Make Ready — III — How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream — IV — Eustacia Is Led On to an Adventure — V — Through the Moonlight — VI — The Two Stand Face to Face — VII — A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness — VIII — Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart — BOOK THIRD
5. 5.THE FASCINATION — I — "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" — II — The New Course Causes Disappointment — III — The First Act in a Timeworn Drama — IV — An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness — V — Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues — VI — Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete — VII — The Morning and the Evening of a Day — VIII — A New Force Disturbs the Current — BOOK FOURTH
6. 6.THE CLOSED DOOR — I — The Rencounter by the Pool — II — He Is Set Upon by Adversities; but He Sings a Song — III — She Goes Out to Battle against Depression — IV — Rough Coercion Is Employed — V — The Journey across the Heath — VI — A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian — VII — The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends — VIII — Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil — BOOK FIFTH
7. 7.THE DISCOVERY — I — "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery" — II — A Lurid Light Breaks In upon a Darkened Understanding — III — Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning — IV — The Ministrations of a Half-Forgotten One — V — An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated — VI — Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter — VII — The Night of the Sixth of November — VIII — Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers — IX — Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together — BOOK SIXTH
8. 8.AFTERCOURSES — I — The Inevitable Movement Onward — II — Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road — III — The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin — IV — Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation

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