Tess of the d'Urbervilles Mass market paperbound - 2006
by Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Marcelle Clements
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. Includes a new Introduction. Revised reissue.
Summary
Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne’er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d’Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.
Details
- Title Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Author Thomas Hardy; Introduction by Marcelle Clements
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Book, New York, New York
- Date September 5, 2006
- Features Bibliography, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780451530271 / 0451530276
- Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
- Dimensions 6.76 x 4.3 x 0.94 in (17.17 x 10.92 x 2.39 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Women murderers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006299551
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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“The greatest tragic writer among English novelists.”—Virginia Woolf
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