Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Subtitle: a pure woman
By: faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy ; with an afterward by Donald Hall
Edition: Rev. and updated bibliography.
Series: A Signet Classic -- CE2546
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780451525468
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Fiction
Description: Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec d'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her child, and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess is very much a victim of her society. She is bound by social and gender constraints until she takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands. From the very first sight of the child with her hair done in ribbons, to the image of the womanly Tess lying like a lamb on the altar at Stonehenge, Hardy brings Tess to life with an extraordinary vividness that makes her live in the heart of the reader.
Notes: This Signet Classic edition originally published: 1980.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 428-429).