461 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 2000 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
461 pages
English language
Published Jan. 22, 2000 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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.