Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
EDITED WITH NOTES BY TIM DOLIN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET R. HIGONNET
In its expression of the cruel workings of history, sexuality and fate on its beautiful, tragic heroine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.
Tess Durbeyfield is driven by poverty into the service of her wealthy 'relations'. Her lowly position leads her to become the victim of her 'cousin' Alec, her seducer and her nemesis. When she
marries Angel Clare, who is himself far from innocent, she confesses her past, but he cannot find the forgiveness that she has offered him.
Hardy once said of Tess, 'I have not been able to put on paper all that she is, or was, to me', but, when the novel first appeared in
1891, critical opinion was sharply divided about Hardy's assessment of his heroine as 'A Pure Woman'. In her illuminating Introduction,... Tovább

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Wiscii'v?-./• i/' 'r /'.7 • ! 'li'j jii '' J ' I.' ¦*] I.,!
PENGUIN^CLASSICS
Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles
EDITED WITH NOTES BY TIM DOLIN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET R. HIGONNET
In its expression of the cruel workings of history, sexuality and fate on its beautiful, tragic heroine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.
Tess Durbeyfield is driven by poverty into the service of her wealthy 'relations'. Her lowly position leads her to become the victim of her 'cousin' Alec, her seducer and her nemesis. When she
marries Angel Clare, who is himself far from innocent, she confesses her past, but he cannot find the forgiveness that she has offered him.
Hardy once said of Tess, 'I have not been able to put on paper all that she is, or was, to me', but, when the novel first appeared in
1891, critical opinion was sharply divided about Hardy's assessment of his heroine as 'A Pure Woman'. In her illuminating Introduction, Margaret Higonnet discusses Hardy's ambiguous and multi-layered characterization of Tess and the way in which this shapes other aspects of the novel. Based on the three-volume first edition, this new Penguin Classic also includes as appendices: Hardy's Prefaces, The Landscapes of Tess, The Graphic Illustrations and episodes censored from the Graphic periodical version.
The cover shows a detail from The Angel at the Sepulchre (Mary Hillier), c. 1870, albumen print, by Julia Margaret Cameron reproduced by courtesy of The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England Vissza