On her way home, she collapses from the heat and  is bitten by a snake, so her last words are what she says to Susan Nunsuch's son.
Before the sixth book of this novel, called Aftercourses, the author includes a footnote saying the marriage that ends that book was forced on him by his editors. In this work, the protagonist's mother comes to visit him while he is asleep, and she assumes he is avoiding her. On her way home, she collapses from the heat and  is bitten by a snake, so her last words are what she says to Susan Nunsuch's son. The protagonist of this novel works in the fields as a furze-cutter after excessive reading made him blind, to the dismay of his wife, a woman raised in Budmouth who hoped that by marrying him she could live a cosmopolitan life in Paris. That woman was originally in love with Damon Wildeve, who instead marries Thomasin, the protagonist's cousin. For 10 points, name this work in which Clym Yeobright returns to Egdon Heath, a novel by Thomas Hardy.
Before the sixth book of this novel, called Aftercourses, the author includes a footnote saying the marriage that ends that book was forced on him by his editors.
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