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    <nonSort>The </nonSort>
    <title>return of the native</title>
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    <namePart>Hardy, Thomas</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Barrineau, Nancy.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gatrell, Simon.</namePart>
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  <genre authority="">Didactic fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="">Love stories.</genre>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1998</dateIssued>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xxxvii, 473 p. ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>A Face on which time makes but little Impression (Page-3), Humanity appears upon the Scene hand in hand with Trouble (Page-7), The Custom of the Country (Page-13), The Halt on the Turnpike-Road (Page-33), Perplexity among honest people (Page-38), The Figure against the Sky (Page-50), Queen of Night (Page-63), Those who are found where there is said to be nobody (Page-69), Love Leads a Shrewd man (Page-74), Tidings of the Comer (Page-105), The People at Blooms end make Ready (Page-110), Eustacia is Led onto an Adventure (Page-120), Through the Moonlight (Page-130), A Coalition between Beauty and oddness (Page-148), Firmness is Discovered in a Gentle Heart (Page-157), My Mind to me a Kingdom The New Course causes Disappointment (Page-174), Sharp words are Spoken and a Crisis Ensues (Page-203), The Morning and the Evening of an Evenful Day (Page-217), A New force Disturbs the Current (Page-230), The Rencounter by the Pool (Page-241), He is set upon by Adversities (Page-248), She Goes out to Battle Against Depression (Page-258), The Tragical Meeting of two old Friends (Page-292), Eustacia hears of Good Fortune (Page-300), Wherefore is Light given to him (Page-311), A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened (Page-319), Thomasin Argues with the Cousin (Page-347), Rain Darkness and Anzious Wanderers (Page-362), Sights and Sounds draw the Wanderers together (Page-372), The Inevitable Movement Onward (Page-385), Thomasin Walks in a Green Place (Page-394), Cheerfulness again asserts itself at Blooms end and Clym finds his Acocation (Page-403)</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Thomas Hardy ; edited with an introduction and notes on revisions by Simon Gatrell ; explanatory notes by Nancy Barrineau.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Adultery</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Heathlands</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mate selection</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mothers and sons</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>People with visual disabilities</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Wessex (England)</geographic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">823.8,HAR</classification>
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      <title>Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">0192834061</identifier>
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