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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100345803981
ISBN-139780345803986
eBay Product ID (ePID)159958176
Product Key Features
Book TitleTess of the D'urbervilles
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Contemporary Women, General, Literary
Publication Year2015
GenreFiction
AuthorThomas Hardy
Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-506661
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"[ Tess of the D'Urbervilles is] Hardy's finest, most complex and most notorious novel . . . The novel is not a mere plea for compassion for the eternal victim, though that is the banner it flies. It also involves a profound questioning of contemporary morality." from the Introduction by Patricia Ingham
Dewey Decimal823/.8
SynopsisOne of Thomas Hardy's most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day. Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy's early work, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.