This is a complete and unabridged reading of Thomas Hardy"s classic novel read by Alan Rickman. Clym Yeobright returns home, happy to escape from materialistic Paris. He meets and marries the passionate beauty Eustacia Vye, who mistakenly sees in Clym the possibility of liberation from the tedium of Egdon Heath. Her ensuing disillusionment and violent argument with her mother-in-law drive her to attempt escape with her old lover Damon Wildeve.