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The return of the native /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Washington Square Press, [1955]Edition: Washington Square Press edDescription: 466 p. ; 17 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR4747 .A1 1955
Summary: This novel is about the evil influence of a woman in Egson Heath, a gloomy moor in southern England. Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to open a school on Egdon Heath, and in spite of his mother's opposition marries Eustacia. Mrs. Yeobright walks over to her son's cottage, but Eustacia, entertaining her lover Wildeve, does not answer the door. Mrs. Yeobright is found by Clym, unconscious and dying of an adder bite. Clym blames Eustacia, who subsequently drowns herself.
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This novel is about the evil influence of a woman in Egson Heath, a gloomy moor in southern England. Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to open a school on Egdon Heath, and in spite of his mother's opposition marries Eustacia. Mrs. Yeobright walks over to her son's cottage, but Eustacia, entertaining her lover Wildeve, does not answer the door. Mrs. Yeobright is found by Clym, unconscious and dying of an adder bite. Clym blames Eustacia, who subsequently drowns herself.

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