BOOK-I: THE ARRIVAL
Late on a Saturday evening in November, Diggory Venn, a traveling salesman of reddle for marking sheep, was driving his cart over the hills and hollows of that somber, impenetrable tract of land in southern England known as England known as Egdon Health. In his cart slept a young girl, Thomasin Yeohright, to whom two years previously he had made a proposal of marriage. And now he was passing a group of merrymakers getting ready to celebrate a marriage which they mistakenly thought had already taken place between Thomasin and Daenon Wildeve.
In truth, Darnon Wildeve was an unhappy victim of his own indecision. The mistake he had made about the license had given him an opportunity to reconsider his relations with another woman far different from his simple, sweet near - bride. This woman, Eustacia Vye, dark, full-limbed, and passionate, was sustained by a longing for the full poor substitute. They had one thinking in common __ an intense dislike of the heath. Eustacia was the orphaned grand daughter of a retired sea captain. Wildeve, once an engineer, had now declined to the state of real innkeeper.
Mrs. Yeobright, Thomasin's aunt, in the meantime had gone to see Venn. When she discovered that he was still in love with Thomasin, she had another interview with Wildeve and got him to promise not to stand in the way of Thomasins's marrying another man. And Wildeve at his next rendezvous with Eustacia on the heath told her that now they might think of going away together. Yet she disdained a prize so easily won; her ears had already quickened to the news that Clym Yeobright, after several years in Paris, was returning to the heath.
BOOK-II: THE ARRIVAL
Meeting Clym was not easy. Thought she walked the dhath in the neighborhood of the Yeobright, her hopes for a casual encounter were defeated. So she bribed one of the boys who was taking part in the treaditonal play of St. George at the Yeobright, to let her take his part.
Clym singled her out" thought she refused to remove her mask , she knew that she had at last aroused his curiosity. Her next step was to terminate her reationship; with Wildeve. A curt note of dismissal to Wildeve was borne by Diggory Ven, who was selfless enough to value Thomasin's happiness above his own; and with Eustacia out of the way, it was an easy matter for him to convince Wildeve hat he should go through with his marriage to Thomasin.
BOOK-III: THE FASCINATION
Clym was fascinated by Eustacia, and in frequent meeting on the heath love ripened between them. To his mother's profound disappointment, the strongly intellectual turn of Clvem's mind had led him to give up forever a promising post in a diamond house in Paris. His new purpose in life-to establish a school which would embody the new ideas which had brought him to a tuning point in his life- seemed to his mother a sad step backward. And when she learned that he was in love with Eustacia Vye, the rift between them widened. She made no attempt ot conceal her dislike of Eustaaica. "Clym, " she said , "if she makes you a good wife, there has never been a bad one. In his eagerness to complete his studies, Clym strained his eyesight so severely that he was forced to stop reading; and in order to avoid living solely on the small savings, he began to work as a furze-cutter on the heath.
BOOK-IV: THE CLOSED DOOR
A chance meeting with Eustacia at a village festival revived in Wildeve the old attraction. One day he came to Clym and Eustacia's cottage.Clym was asleep,but Eustacia admitted Wildeve. A knock at the door was heard,Eustacia looked out and saw that Mr.s Yeobright had come to pay a call. She decided to show Wildeve out the back away because she thought that Clym was walking up. When she came back,she found Clym asleep and no sign of Mrs.Yeobright.Later in the afternoon Clym decided to walk to his mother's house.Halfway across the heath,he stumbled over his mother, lying prostrate and fatally sick beside the path.
BOOK-V : THE DISCOVERY
Other people arrived soon, among them Eustacia and Wildeve together. When Eustacia saw that Mrs. Yeobright was dead, she turned to Wildeve and said, "I am to blame for this. There is evil in store for me,"Eustacia withheld her knowledge of the events of that fateful day; and when Clym,racked by grief, a sense of guilt, and illness,stumbled upon the truth,he released a torrential fury on his wife.Eustacia admitted her guilt and left her husband.Her only hope now was to get away from the heath entirely.She knew that Wildeve was willing to run away with her.In the meantime Clym wrote a letter to Eustacia offering a reconciliation; it was delivered on November night as she was preparing for her journey. However, she did not see the letter on the mantel, so quickly had she fled from her grandfather's house. At the spot on the heath where was to meet Wildeve,she realized that she had no money and also she did want to break her marriage vow by turning to a weakling like Wildeve.Not long afterward Clym,met Wildeve searching the heath for Eustacia.When they saw a dark form swirling in the weir,Wildeve jumped in.Clym tried to save them ,but only through the assistance of Diggory Venn was he himself saved from drowning.
BOOK-VI: AFTER-COURSES
Many months later, Thomasin decided to marry Diggory, and Clym finally found a vocation in preaching to villagers on the heath
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