Tess of the D’Urbervilles

‘The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists’ Virginia Woolf

With its depiction of the wronged ‘pure woman’ Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy’s novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles, 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.

Edited with notes by TIM DOLIN and an Introduction by MARGARET R. HIGONNET

Author: Thomas Hardy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 05/27/2003
Series: Penguin Classics
Pages: 592
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780141439594
Language: English