"The Homecoming" (1878) is a novel by the English Victorian writer Thomas Hardy (creator of the famous "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"), part of the conventional "Wessex" cycle, which the author himself later defined as "novels of characters and circumstances." 1840s, South West England, Wessex, Egdon Moors. The young beauty Eustacia Wei, passionate, headstrong, selfish and ambitious, longs to escape from the rural backwater she hates into “another life” full of brilliance, fun and pleasure. Meanwhile, after several years of serving as a manager in a Parisian jewelry salon, Clym Yeobright returns to his Blooms End estate, also dreaming of living a different life - settling in his native land and opening a school for the rural poor. Soon Eustacia and Clym meet - and this meeting is destined to be fatal for both...