The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

Book 1: The Three Women

• Chapter 1: A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
• Chapter 2: Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
• Chapter 3: The Custom of the Country
• Chapter 4: The Halt on the Turnpike Road
• Chapter 5: Perplexity among Honest People
• Chapter 6: The Figure against the Sky
• Chapter 7: Queen of Night
• Chapter 8: Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
• Chapter 9: Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
• Chapter 10: A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
• Chapter 11: The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman

Book 2: The Arrival

• Chapter 1: Tidings of the Comer
• Chapter 2: The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
• Chapter 3: How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
• Chapter 4: Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
• Chapter 5: Through the Moonlight
• Chapter 6: The Two Stand Face to Face
• Chapter 7: A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
• Chapter 8: Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart

Book 3: The Fascination

• Chapter 1: "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
• Chapter 2: The New Course Causes Disappointment
• Chapter 3: The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
• Chapter 4: An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
• Chapter 5: Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
• Chapter 6: Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
• Chapter 7: The Morning and the Evening of a Day
• Chapter 8: A New Force Disturbs the Current

Book 4: The Closed Door

• Chapter 1: The Rencounter by the Pool
• Chapter 2: He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
• Chapter 3: She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
• Chapter 4: Rough Coercion Is Employed
• Chapter 5: The Journey across the Heath
• Chapter 6: A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
• Chapter 7: The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
• Chapter 8: Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil

Book 5: The Discovery

• Chapter 1: "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
• Chapter 2: A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
• Chapter 3: Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
• Chapter 4: The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
• Chapter 5: An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
• Chapter 6: Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
• Chapter 7: The Night of the Sixth of November
• Chapter 8: Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
• Chapter 9: Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together

Book 6: Aftercourses

• Chapter 1: The Inevitable Movement Onward
• Chapter 2: Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
• Chapter 3: The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
• Chapter 4: Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation