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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: The jeweler Jove Burden tires of city life and leaves Paris to return to the Egdon Heath wilderness, hoping to live peacefully in nature. However, his newly married wife is determined to leave the impoverished rural area. Unable to convince him, she accidentally causes his mother to die of heatstroke and then elopes with Jove's cousin-in-law. Both are drowned on their way to Paris. Jove, seeking spiritual solace, eventually becomes a minister. This book, along with Tess of the d'Urbervilles, is one of Hardy's representative works.