A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset. Egdon Heath 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 villade deep in woodland of Dorset, the lives of the inhabitants, who gain their living from the trees around them, are affected by the lives of outsiders. Giles Winterbourne loves and is engaged to Grace Melbury, the daughter of a rich timber merchant. But when Giles loses his boney, Grace's father insists that his daughter marries a handsome and attractive yound docter, Eddred Fitzpiers.
Three classic stories set in rural Dorset, about people who lived on Egdon Heath in 1800s that have themes of mystery and romance. Who is the tall stranger who comes to the shepherd's cottage? Why has farmer Lodge's young wife fallen ill? Who will marry Tony Kytes?
A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset. Egdon Heath 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.