Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

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Canonical Title

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Original publication date

1891

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Tess Durbeyfield

Alec d'Urberville

Angel Clare

Awards and honors

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 26)

Epigraph

'...Poor wounded name! My bosom as a bed | Shall lodge thee.', - W. Shakespeare [Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 1, Scene 2, 111/12] & should read: 'Poor wounded name: My bosom as a bed | Shall lodge thee...', [Riverside Shakespeare (1997)].

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On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486415899, Paperback)

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.

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