Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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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.
Subjects
Fiction,
Man-woman relationships,
Poor families,
Women murderers,
Women murderers in fiction,
Poor families in fiction,
Man-woman relationships in fiction,
Children of the rich in fiction,
Triangles (Interpersonal relations),
Children of clergy in fiction,
Children of clergy,
Children of the rich,
Women domestics in fiction,
Women domestics,
Women household employees in fiction,
Women household employees,
England in fiction,
Social life and customs,
Young women in fiction,
Young women,
Social classes,
Social classes in fiction,
Facsimiles,
English Manuscripts,
Manuscripts,
Criticism and interpretation,
Accessible book,
OverDrive,
Classic Literature,
Literature,
English fiction,
Protected DAISY,
In library
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155 editions First published in 1891
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1956, StánĂ nakladatelstvĂ krásnĂ© literatury, hudby a umÇ”enĂ
Tess z D'UrbervillĹŻ
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Vyd. v SNKLHU 1.
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June 1972, Peter Smith Publisher Inc
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Paperback
in English
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A Laurel Edition edition
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May 1, 1996, Penguin Audio
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Audio Cassette
in English
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Abridged Ed edition
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2000, Modern Library
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
in English
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2001 Modern Library pbk. ed. / introduction by James Wood ; notes by Daniel S. Burke.
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2001, Da bu wen hua, Xianggang zong dai li Shi jie chu ban she
Daisi gu niang
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880-02 Chu ban.
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June 3, 2004, Penguin Books Ltd
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Summer Classics)
Paperback
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New Ed edition
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May 26, 2005, Oxford University Press, USA
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Oxford World's Classics)
in English
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April 30, 2006, Paperbackshop.Co.UK Ltd - Echo Library
Tess of the D'urbervilles
Paperback
in English
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Largeprint edition
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September 28, 2007, The Audio Partners, Cover to Cover
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Audio CD
in English
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History Created October 15, 2009 · 14 revisions
| August 13, 2012 | Edited by C. Nguyen | Added new cover |
| March 4, 2012 | Edited by Earl Tate | Added new cover |
| July 5, 2011 | Edited by George | Added new cover |
| July 5, 2011 | Edited by George | Added new cover |
| October 15, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |