The return of the native

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Thomas Hardy: The return of the native (2005, Oxford University Press)

441 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2005 by Oxford University Press.

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978-0-19-284072-1
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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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