A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset. Egdon Hearth was a wild and lonely place. The people who were born there, lived there, died there.Except for Clym Yeobright. One Christmas, he return to Egdon Heath. What follows is a story about love, sorrow and death.
In a vilage deep in woodlanders of Dorset, the lives of the inhabitants, tho gain their living from the trees around them, are affected by the lives of outsiders. Giles Wintebourne loves and is engaged to Grace Melbury, the dougther of a rich timber merchant.