Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Read about Thomas Hardy's beautiful and spirited heroine in this gift edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, which features gold cover embossing and gilded page edges.

Thomas Hardy's heroine is driven to her tragic end by three men who betray her trust: John Durbeyfield, her drunken, feckless father; the seducer Alec d'Urberville, who leaves Tess pregnant at 16 with a son that dies in infancy; and Angel Clare, the unforgiving husband who rejects her. Abandoned in so many ways, Tess suffers al...