Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141439599 ISBN 13: 9780141439594

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

'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

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Review:

"[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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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141439599
• ISBN 13: 9780141439594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592
• Editor: Dolin Tim