Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Subtitle: a pure woman
By: faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy
Publisher: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.
Published: 1891
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Description: The story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man, which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night, and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder.
Notes: First edition, first issue (original state). vid. Purdy, p. 67 ff.