Fiction · 1878
The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native, first published in 1878, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, machine-cleaned and carefully typeset, free to read online and available in print. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Preface
- Book First — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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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1840–1928 · Victorian
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