The Return of the Native
Colophon
The Return of the Native
was published in 1878 by
Thomas Hardy.
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Jason Livermore,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2006 by
John Hamm and David Widger
for
Project Gutenberg
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Internet Archive.
The cover page is adapted from
Heath with Standing Water,
a painting completed in 1925 by
Frederic Golden Short.
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League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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