On the brooding expanse of Egdon Heath, the restless Eustacia Vye marries the returned diamond-merchant Clym Yeobright, but their clashing ambitions and a web of misunderstandings drive them toward tragedy.
Books mentioned in The Return of the Native (1)
Rasselas by Samuel Johnson: “His sight, like the wings in Rasselas, though useless to him for his grand purpose, sufficed for this strait, and he found that when a little practice should have hardened his palms against blistering he would be able to work with ease.”
Books that mention The Return of the Native (3)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger: “Take old Eustacia Vye, in The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy.”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “There they hang in the mind the shapes of the books we have read...Robinson Crusoe, Emma, The Return of the Native.”
Whistler by Ann Patchett: “They read The Return of the Native.”