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The Return of the Native
Chapitres (50)
- Epigraph 0:00
- Preface 0:23
- Book I: The Three Women: I: A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression 2:28
- II: Humanity Appears Upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 13:07
- III: The Custom of the Country 27:24
- IV: The Halt on the Turnpike Road 1:16:33
- V: Perplexity Among Honest People 1:27:50
- VI: The Figure Against the Sky 1:57:20
- VII: Queen of Night 2:29:46
- VIII: Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody 2:45:44
- IX: Love Leads a Shrewd Man Into Strategy 2:57:24
- X: A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 3:20:45
- XI: The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman 3:40:51
- Book II: The Arrival: I: Tidings of the Comer 4:00:24
- II: The People at Blooms-End Make Ready 4:11:21
- III: How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream 4:21:26
- IV: Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 4:32:00
- V: Through the Moonlight 4:54:04
- VI: The Two Stand Face to Face 5:09:29
- VII: A Coalition Between Beauty and Oddness 5:35:46
- VIII: Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 5:55:44
- Book III: The Fascination: I: “My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is” 6:18:04
- II: The New Course Causes Disappointment 6:29:19
- III: The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 6:48:44
- IV: An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 7:19:40
- V: Sharp Words Are Spoken and a Crisis Ensues 7:37:56
- VI: Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete 7:54:20
- VII: The Morning and the Evening of a Day 8:10:33
- VIII: A New Force Disturbs the Current 8:41:33
- Book IV: The Closed Door: I: The Rencounter by the Pool 8:58:24
- II: He Is Set Upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song 9:13:54
- III: She Goes Out to Battle Against Depression 9:37:43
- IV: Rough Coercion Is Employed 10:05:48
- V: The Journey Across the Heath 10:22:11
- VI: A Conjuncture, and Its Result Upon the Pedestrian 10:32:23
- VII: The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends 10:56:20
- VIII: Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune and Beholds Evil 11:13:34
- Book V: The Discovery: I: “Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery” 11:31:27
- II: A Lurid Light Breaks in Upon a Darkened Understanding 11:49:58
- III: Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning 12:11:14
- IV: The Ministrations of a Half-Forgotten One 12:29:59
- V: An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 12:41:03
- VI: Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter 12:55:44
- VII: The Night of the Sixth of November 13:10:29
- VIII: Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers 13:29:36
- IX: Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 13:52:57
- Book VI: Aftercourses: I: The Inevitable Movement Onward 14:17:19
- II: Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road 14:37:55
- III: The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin 14:44:57
- IV: Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation 14:56:16
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The Return of the Native opens with Thomasin Yeobright returning from her wedding, which was aborted because of an error on the marriage license. She was supposed to wed Damon Wildeve, who seems ambivalent about the marriage, and still secretly longs for Eustacia Vye, a former lover.
Eustacia imagines a better life than that of a lonely young woman living with her grandfather in the rural southwest of England. When Thomasin’s cousin Clym returns from business in Paris, Eustacia sees him as someone who can take her away to a city with charm and beauty, so unlike the heath that she loathes. But Yeobright has other plans.
Hardy originally conceived The Return of the Native as a classical tragedy in five parts, but as it was being serialized, he added a sixth part in consideration of a public that demanded a more satisfying ending. The novel was controversial at the time, dealing with marital dissatisfaction and infidelity.