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| Genre/Form: | novels Pastoral fiction Didactic fiction Fiction Novels Romans pastoraux Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Thomas Hardy |
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Hardy; Tim Dolin |
| ISBN: | 0141439599 9780141439594 |
| OCLC Number: | 50937105 |
| Notes: | Originally published : 1891. Includes updated Further reading. |
| Awards: | Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003 |
| Description: | lxviii, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
| Contents: | General editor's preface -- Chronology : Hardy's life and works -- Map : The Wessex of the novels -- Bibliographical note -- Introduction -- Further reading -- A history of the text -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- Appendix I: Prefaces to the fifth and later editions -- Appendix II: The landscapes of Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- Appendix III: The Graphic illustrations -- Appendix IV: A poem relating to Tess -- Appendix V: 'Saturday night in Arcady', 'The Chaseborough dance' and 'The midnight baptism' -- Glossary. |
| Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
| Responsibility: | Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Tim Dolin ; with an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet. |
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When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.
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"[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 Read more...
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