The Return of the Native

An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism (Norton critical editions)

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The Return of the Native (1969, Norton)

500 pages

English language

Published Sept. 15, 1969 by Norton.

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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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Subjects

  • Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
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