num_pages: 424
description: The life of a simple country girl in nineteenth-century England is destroyed by her father's determination to use her in order to regain the family's former social standing.
language: English
title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
titlecomplete: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
characters: Angel Clare, Tess Durbeyfield, Alec D'Urberville
genres: Romance, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Classics, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Victorian
ratings_count: 276859
places: Dorset, England, United Kingdom
publisher: Perfection Learning