Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England: Pulp! The Classics / Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2013. MMPB. New. First Thus Tess is just a humble milkmaid when the local landowner has his wicked way. Her new beau, the smarmy Angel Clare, is none too pleased when he finds out she's already been deflowered. What is a girl to do? Bloody revenge of course, and an ending to touch the hardest of hearts. ** First print thus with pink dyed page edges. Packed and shipped with care.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...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. -

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Bookseller: Retrograde Media (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: RM1018
Title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Format/Binding: MMPB
Book Condition: New New
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 1843441268
ISBN 13: 9781843441267
Publisher: Pulp! The Classics / Oldcastle Books Ltd
Place of Publication: Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England
Date Published: 2013
Bookseller catalogs: Pulp Reprints;

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