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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
CHRONOLOGY: HARDY’S LIFE AND WORKS
MAP: THE WESSEX OF THE NOVELS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTION
FURTHER READING
A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE TEXT
THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE
BOOK FIRST
The Three Women
CHAPTER I
A Face on which Time makes but little Impression
CHAPTER II
Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with Trouble
CHAPTER III
The Custom of the Country
CHAPTER IV
The Halt on the Turnpike-road
CHAPTER V
Perplexity among Honest People
CHAPTER VI
The Figure against the Sky
CHAPTER VII
Queen of Night
CHAPTER VIII
Those who are found where there is said to be Nobody
CHAPTER IX
Love leads a shrewd Man into Strategy
CHAPTER X
A desperate Attempt at Persuasion
CHAPTER XI
The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
BOOK SECOND
The Arrival
CHAPTER I
Tidings of the Comer
CHAPTER II
The People at Blooms-End make ready
CHAPTER III
How a little Sound produced a great Dream
CHAPTER IV
Eustacia is led on to an Adventure
CHAPTER V
Through the Moonlight
CHAPTER VI
The Two stand Face to Face
CHAPTER VII
A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
CHAPTER VIII
Firmness is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
BOOK THIRD
The Fascination
CHAPTER I
‘My Mind to me a Kingdom is’
CHAPTER II
The new Course causes Disappointment
CHAPTER III
The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
CHAPTER IV
An Hour of Bliss and many Hours of Sadness
CHAPTER V
Sharp Words are spoken, and a Crisis ensues
CHAPTER VI
Yeobright goes, and the Breach is complete
CHAPTER VII
The Morning and the Evening of an Eventful Day
CHAPTER VIII
A New Force disturbs the current
BOOK FOURTH
The Closed Door
CHAPTER I
The Rencounter
by the Pool
CHAPTER II
He is set upon by Adversities; but he sings a Song
CHAPTER III
She goes out to battle against Depression
CHAPTER IV
Rough Coercion is employed
CHAPTER V
The Journey across the Heath
CHAPTER VI
An Awkward Conjuncture, and its Result upon the Pedestrian
CHAPTER VII
The Tragical Meeting of Two Old Friends
CHAPTER VIII
Eustacia hears of Good Fortune, and beholds Evil
BOOK FIFTH
The Discovery
CHAPTER I
‘Wherefore is Light given to him that is in Misery?’
CHAPTER II
A lurid Light breaks in upon a darkened Understanding
CHAPTER III
Eustacia dresses herself under sad Circumstances
CHAPTER IV
The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
CHAPTER V
An old Move inadvertently repeated
CHAPTER VI
Thomasin argues with her Cousin, and he writes a Letter
CHAPTER VII
The Night of the Sixth of November
CHAPTER VIII
Rain, Darkness, and anxious Wanderers
CHAPTER IX
Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together
BOOK SIXTH
Aftercourses
CHAPTER I
The inevitable Movement Onward
CHAPTER II
Thomasin walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
CHAPTER III
The serious Discourse of Clym with his Cousin
CHAPTER IV
Cheerfulness again asserts itself at Blooms-End, and Clym finds his Vocation
NOTES
APPENDIX AThe Preface to 1895 and the Postscript to 1912
APPENDIX B
A Note on the Illustrations and the Map of the Novel
GLOSSARY
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