In this novel, one character trades holding hands for thirty minutes in order to play the character of the Turkish Knight in the play “Saint George.” In a footnote, this novel’s author wrote that he intended it to retain its “isolated and weird character” despite having added the reader-pleasing alternate ending “Aftercourses.” In that ending, this novel’s protagonist finds his vocation as a preacher after excessive reading led him to go (*) blind. This novel’s protagonist works as a furze-cutter, despite his wife’s wishes to go to Paris where he used to be a diamond merchant. This novel originally ended with the drowning in a weir (10[1])of the lovers Damon Wildeve (-5[1])and Eustacia Vye. (10[1])For 10 points, Egdon Heath is the main setting of what Thomas Hardy novel about Clym Yeobright, who comes back (10[1])home from abroad? ■END■