Complete and unabridged, with 98 full-page plates by Thomas Fearnley, Jurriaen Andriessen and Jacob Philipp Hackert. Egdon Heath, a woman who wants Paris and gets a furze-cutter, and a chain of small failures of nerve that no one intends. Hardy's editor made him marry two of the characters off at the end against his judgement; he restored his own ending in a footnote and left both standing. The heath gets the first chapter to itself and never leaves the book. Ninety-eight plates from the Dutch marine painters to Gainsborough follow the heath's weather and the water that frames it, from 1695 to 1837.