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The ne'er-do-well sire of a starving brood suddenly discovers a family connection to the aristocracy, and his selfish scheme to capitalize on their wealth sets a fateful plot in motion. Jack Durbeyfield dispatches his gentle daughter Tess to the home of their noble kin, anticipating a lucrative match between the lovely girl and a titled cousin. Innocent Tess finds the path of the d'Urberville estate paved with ruin in this gripping tale of the inevitability of fate and the tragic nature of existence.
Subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, Thomas Hardy's sympathetic portrait of a blameless young woman's destruction first appeared in 1891. Its powerful indictment of Victorian hypocrisy, along with its unconventional focus on the rural lower class and its direct treatment of sexuality and religion, raised a ferocious public outcry. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is Hardy's penultimate novel; the pressures of critical infamy shortly afterward drove the author to abandon the genre in favor of poetry. Like his fictional heroine, the artist fell victim to a rigidly oppressive moral code.
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 Paperback
- Edition Dover Thrift Edi
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, NY
- Date 2001-06-14
- ISBN 9780486415895 / 0486415899
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.26 x 5.24 x 0.77 in (20.98 x 13.31 x 1.96 cm)
- Ages 14 to UP years
- Grade levels 9 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Women murderers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00065956
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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