About this story
Clym's eyes fail; Susan Nunsuch pins a wax effigy of you against the fever; his mother knocks while Wildeve stands in your kitchen, and dies under a thorn; Diggory Venn gives up the red and courts Thomasin. Forty-six chapters carry Egdon's queen from the signal fire to the weir pool and the fires nobody answers.
How it opens
Night gathered over Egdon Heath until earth and sky seemed made from one darkness.
Wind combed the furze, carrying peat smoke and distant bells across the ridges.
Captain VyeThe parish thinks it honors Guy Fawkes; yours appears to challenge the moon.
Choose
A traveller may need a signal on this heath.
I refuse to let the darkness have every height.