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The Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1878
Pages
Pages 380

A restless young woman who longs to be loved to madness marries a man back from Paris to teach on the heath, then runs and drowns in a weir with her old lover. The husband who blames himself turns preacher.

Then Egdon was aroused to reciprocity; for the storm was its lover, and the wind its friend.
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy

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