Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) NOVEL by: Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants; however, John is given the impression by Parson Tringham that he may have noble blood, since "Durbeyfield" is a corruption of "D'Urberville", the surname of a noble Norman family, then extinct. The news immediately goes to John's head.

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/25/2017
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781542741149
ISBN10: 1542741149
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | General

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