Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By: With photos. of the author, his environment, and the setting of the book, together with an introd. by Carl J. Weber.
Series: Great illustrated classics
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction; Children of the rich -- Fiction; Children of clergy -- Fiction; Women domestics -- Fiction; Women murderers -- Fiction; Poor families -- Fiction; Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.