“The Return of the Native” is a literary work by--

The Return of the Native, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1878. The novel is set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex in southwestern England. The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster after a successful but, in his opinion, shallow career as a jeweler in Paris. His other Novels: A Pair of Blue Eyes, Under The Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge etc. Source: britannica.com