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New York, New York: Signet Classics / New American Library, 1980. Later Printing. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Mass Market Paperback Minor creasing down the spine of the book with minor shelf-wear and chipping along its edges and corners.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles Mass market paperbound - 1964
by Thomas Hardy
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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. -
First Edition Identification
First published in 1891 by James R Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, London, in three volumes. Publisher's original sand-colored cloth with vertical linear designs of honeysuckle blossom on the upper covers, gilt decorations and lettering designed by Charles Ricketts.
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- Title Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Author Thomas Hardy
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Signet Classics, New York
- Date 1964-02-01
- ISBN 9780451516862 / 0451516869
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York: Signet - New American Library, 1980. Some corner, edge wear. Pages very good. Cover image of Tess from the powereful Roman Polanski film. With a revised and updated bibliography. Because of its sexual frankness and indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, Hardy's novel was considered shocking when it was published in 1891. It is the tale of Tess Derbeyfield, a young country girl whose rape by Alec D'Urberville, a distant aristocratic relative, leads to pregnancy. Tess's baby dies, and she finds work as a dairymaid at a farm where no one knows her story. There she falls in love with and marries a young farmer named Angel Clare, but when Angel finds out about his wife's past, he is horrified, and deserts her. Few notes inside cover. 432 pages.. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
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