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A convalescent man wanders into an old churchyard and yields to melancholy, reading weathered inscriptions and brooding over past habits, small ironies, and uneasy reminiscences. Encounters with an unusual tomb bearing a foreign name provoke reflections on mortality, memory, and the traces strangers leave behind. The narrative proceeds through restrained scenes and interior observation, gradually revealing how illness, domestic life, and fleeting oddities disrupt ordinary complacency and prompt quiet psychological and moral reckonings.

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Title: The Return

Author: Walter De la Mare

Release date: February 1, 2002 [eBook #3075]
Most recently updated: November 19, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Eve Sobol and David Widger

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The Return

By Walter de la Mare