Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy

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Vintage Books
15 March 2015

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Vintage Classics

In a beautiful new Vintage Classics package- one of Hardy's most famous novels, the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day.

One of Thomas Hardy's most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day.

Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy's early work, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.

By: Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 374g
ISBN: 9780345803986
ISBN 10: 0345803981
Series: Vintage Classics
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 15 March 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born in Dorset, England, son of a stonemason. Though a gifted student, he was unable to afford to attend university. He was apprenticed to an architect at age sixteen and worked in London for several years before returning to Dorset and dedicating himself to writing novels and poems.

Reviews for Tess of the D'Urbervilles

[ Tess of the D'Urbervilles is] Hardy's finest, most complex and most notorious novel . . . The novel is not a mere plea for compassion for the eternal victim, though that is the banner it flies. It also involves a profound questioning of contemporary morality. -from the Introduction by Patricia Ingham