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.
The Return of the Native
An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism
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500 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 1969 by Norton.
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- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
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