The Return of the Native (Signet Classics)

The heather covered English countryside is the setting for Thomas Hardy's classic moving novel of conflicting aspirations and tragic destiny. Clym Yeobright returns from Paris to the village of his birth, with the plan to improve the lives of the men and women of Egdon Heath. But his plans are upset when he falls in love with a passionate, discontented girl who longs to escape from the rural town. Their stormy relationship explodes in a violent tragedy which changes the young man's life forever.