by Thomas Hardy
PREFACE
BOOK ONE THE THREE WOMEN
1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
3 The Custom of the Country
4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5 Perplexity among Honest People
6 The Figure against the Sky
7 Queen of Night
8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
9 Love Leads a Shrewd Man into Strategy
10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman
BOOK TWO THE ARRIVAL
1 Tidings of the Comer
2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready
3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
5 Through the Moonlight
6 The Two Stand Face to Face
7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness
8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
BOOK THREE THE FASCINATION
1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
2 The New Course Causes Disappointment
3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness
5 Sharp Words Are Spoken, and a Crisis Ensues
6 Yeobright Goes, and the Breach Is Complete
7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
BOOK FOUR THE CLOSED DOOR
1 The Rencounter by the Pool
2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
5 The Journey across the Heath
6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
8 Eustacia Hears of Good Fortune, and Beholds Evil
BOOK FIVE THE DISCOVERY
1 "Wherefore Is Light Given to Him That Is in Misery"
2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated
6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
7 The Night of the Sixth of November
8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
BOOK SIX AFTERCOURSES
1 The Inevitable Movement Onward
2 Thomasin Walks in a Green Place by the Roman Road
3 The Serious Discourse of Clym with His Cousin
4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His Vocation
