Return to Homeland (Premium)

Author: Thomas Hardy
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The jeweler Jacobite gets tired of city life and leaves Paris to return to the Egdon Heath wilderness, hoping to live peacefully in the embrace of nature. However, his newly married wife is determined to leave the impoverished rural area. Unable to convince him, she unintentionally causes his mother to die from heatstroke. As a result, she elopes with Jacobite's cousin-in-law, and both die of drowning on their way to Paris. To seek spiritual solace, Jacobite eventually becomes a clergyman. This book and Tess of the d'Urbervilles are both representative works of Hardy.