The Return of the Native
Hardy
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Hardy · 50 chapters
Quotes from this book
The qualifications which frequently invest the façade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the façade of a palace double its size lent to this heath a sublimity in which spots renowned for beauty of the accepted kind are utterly wanting.
Fair prospects wed happily with fair times; but alas, if times be not fair!
Chapters
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- BOOK FIRST—THE THREE WOMENSample
- 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
- Preface
- V ENN
- X. A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
- XI. The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
- BOOK SECOND—THE ARRIVAL
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Preface
- C LYM.
- 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
- 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