Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Original publication date

1891

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Tess Durbeyfield

Alec d'Urberville

Angel Clare

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

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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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