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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Vintage Classics)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Vintage Classics)

by ThomasHardy (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles, in hope that they might help her alleviate her own family's poverty. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 07 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0099511622
ISBN 13: 9780099511625
Book Overview: Hardy's shocking and deeply moving novel about the one and only Tess of the D'urbervilles

Media Reviews
Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal * The Times *
Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination... Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting -- Irving Howe
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles has a lush sensuality about the heat of summer and the heat of lust which makes the gorgeousness of Hardy's heroine and his country of Wessex both seems utterly desirable as the tale of tragic fate unfolds * The Times *
Hardy never used his country and his Greek ambitions to better effect -- Melvyn Bragg
Tess's beauty and the effect that it has on others gave me a sense of the destructive power of sex -- Rufus Wainwright
Author Bio
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot's church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published in 1871 and this was rapidly followed by Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). He also wrote many other novels, poems and short stories. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was published in 1891. His final novel was Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit in 1920 and the gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1912. His wife died in 1912 and he later married his secretary. Thomas Hardy died 11 January 1928.