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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune,meeting her'cousin'Alec proves to be her downfall.
A very different man,Angel Clare,seems to offer her love and salvation,but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention,Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series,designed by the award-winningCoralie Bickford-Smith,these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful,tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928),born Higher Brockhampton,near Dorchester,originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet,Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels:The Mayor of Casterbridge(1886),Tess of the D'Urbervilles(1891),Far from the Madding Crowd(1874),andJude the Obscure(1895). Amidst the controversy caused byJude the Obscure,he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse,The Dynasts.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141040332Number of pages: 592Weight: 743 gDimensions: 205 x 138 x 48 mm
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"(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
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