Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

Tess deystvitel'no proiskhodit iz drevnego roda d'Erbervilley, no na ee dolyu ne prikhoditsya velichie i slava mogushchestvennykh predkov, lish' bremya ikh proklyatiya. U nee net ni bogatstva, ni zemel', ni dazhe titula - velichie roda ugaslo v nezapamyatnye vremena, no po-prezhnemu zhivy prizraki, naselyayushchie strashnye legendy, i bolee chem zhivy chudovishcha, naselyayushchie podsoznanie geroev romana. Esli sud'ba umnitsy i krasavitsy Tess - nakazanie za smertnye grekhi ee predkov, to ...