Oxford Univ Pr. As New with no dust jacket. 1998. Paperback. 0192833626 . Clean, no markings, crease across back cover. ; 0.88 x 7.74 x 5.08 Inches; 450 pages; The classic tale of Tess Durbeyfield, wronged by two men and driven to vengeful murder, shows Hardy at his most fatalistic. Hardy felt that this was the finest of his novels, and that Tess was the most deeply felt character he ever created. Certainly, it has remained high on most people's list of favourite Victorian novels. .

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. -

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Bookseller: Footnotes Bookshop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 63759
Title: Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN 10: 0192833626
ISBN 13: 9780192833624
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: 0192833626
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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