Return of the Native Volume I

By Thomas Hardy

Subjects: Manners and customs in fiction, Fiction, Marital Relations

Description: 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. Subjects