An edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1707)

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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An edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1707)

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

  • 3.67 ·
  • 9 Ratings
  • 106 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 26 Have read

Tess of the d’Urbervilles is said to be Thomas Hardy’s fictional masterpiece and is considered to be an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story.

It initially appeared in a censored, serialised version in The Graphic in 1891 and was published in a single volume the following year. Early reviews were mixed, partly because of its challenge to Victorian sexual morals—it is now looked upon much more favorably.

Tess Durbeyfield is the oldest child of uneducated peasants who are given the impression that they may have noble blood, as their surname is a corruption of that of an extinct Norman family. When Tess participates in the village May Dance, she meets Angel, who stops to join the dance but notices Tess too late to dance with her. That night, Tess’s father gets too drunk to drive to the market, so she undertakes the journey herself. However, she falls asleep at the reins, and the family’s only horse encounters a speeding wagon and is fatally wounded. Tess feels so guilty over the consequences for the family that she agrees to try to claim kin with a rich widow who lives in a neighbouring town. The story traces Tess’s life through the following years.

The novel has been adapted for the stage, theatre, opera, cinema and television numerous times since its publication.

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2020-11-01, Enhanced Media
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
2019, Standard Ebooks
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2017, Vintage
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2013, Hachette
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008, Vintage Books
in English
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1997, Folio Society
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1994-02-01, Project Gutenberg
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1964-01, Washington Square Press
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
1930, Macmillan and Co. Limited
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1919, Pocket Books
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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.

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