The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
"The Return of the Native" by Thomas Hardy is a novel published in 1878. Set entirely on the wild Egdon Heath over the span of a year, it follows the intertwined fates of several characters trapped by passion and circumstance. When Clym Yeobright returns from Paris, the beautiful but restless Eustacia Vye sees him as her escape from the desolate heath. Their marriage sets off a chain of events involving thwarted desires,
family estrangement, and fateful misunderstandings that will test everyone's loyalties and dreams. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.html.images | 864 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.epub3.images | 590 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.epub.images | 591 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.epub.noimages | 456 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.kf8.images | 787 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.kindle.images | 743 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/122.txt.utf-8 | 819 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/122/pg122-h.zip | 573 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Return of the Native |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Native |
| Credits | John Hamm and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 80.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Adultery -- Fiction |
| Subject | Didactic fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Subject | Mate selection -- Fiction |
| Subject | Wessex (England) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mothers and sons -- Fiction |
| Subject | People with visual disabilities -- Fiction |
| Subject | Heathlands -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 122 |
| Release Date | Mar 8, 2006 |
| Most Recently Updated | Mar 30, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 2566 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |