The Return of the Native.

Intro -- Title Page -- PREFACE -- BOOK ONE - THE THREE WOMEN -- 1-A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression -- 2-Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble -- 3-The Custom of the Country -- 4-The Halt on the Turnpike Road -- 5-Perplexity among Honest People -- 6-The Figure against the Sky -- 7-Queen of Night -- 8-Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody -- 9-Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy -- 10-A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion -- 11-The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman -- BOOK TWO - THE ARRIVAL -- 1-Tidings of the Comer -- 2-The People at Blooms-End Make Ready -- 3-How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream -- 4-Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure -- 5-Through the Moonlight -- 6-The Two Stand Face to Face -- 7-A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness -- 8-Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart -- BOOK THREE - THE FASCINATION -- 1-"My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is" -- 2-The New Course Causes Disappointment -- 3-The First Act in a Timeworn Drama -- 4-An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness -- 5-Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues -- 6-Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete -- 7-The Morning and the Evening of a Day -- 8-A New Force Disturbs the Current -- BOOK FOUR - THE CLOSED DOOR -- 1-The Rencounter by the Pool -- 2-He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song -- 3-She Goes Out to Battle against Depression -- 4-Rough Coercion Is Employed -- 5-The Journey across the Heath -- 6-A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian -- 7-The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends -- 8-Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil -- BOOK FIVE - THE DISCOVERY -- 1-"Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery" -- 2-A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding -- 3-Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning -- 4-The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One -- 5-An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated.

6-Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter -- 7-The Night of the Sixth of November -- 8-Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers -- 9-Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together -- BOOK SIX - AFTERCOURSES -- 1-The Inevitable Movement Onward -- 2-Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road -- 3-The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin -- 4-Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation -- Copyright.

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