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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin (Editor), Tim Dolin (Noted by), Margaret Randolph Higonnet (Introduction)
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By Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin (Editor), Tim Dolin (Noted by), Margaret Randolph Higonnet (Introduction)
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As relevant now as it was when it was first published, Thomas Hardy’s criticism of society’s double standards through the story of Tess is equal parts tragic and timeless.

''The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists'' Virginia Woolf

With its depiction of the wronged ''pure woman'' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D''Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy''s novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D''Urbervilles, meeting her ''cousin'' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and s...

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