Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Into this story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. "I have never been able to put on paper all that she is, or was to me" he said. In defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject of tragedy, Hardy gave rein to his feeling for landscape and rural life - its harshness, seasonal rhythms and reminders of death and resurrection - and endows them with a brooding symbolism and visionary beauty.

COVER: Paperback

CONDITION: Pre-Loved

TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction

SUB-TYPE: Fantasy

ISBN: 9780140620207

LANGUAGE: English

SUGGESTED AGE LEVEL: Adult

AUTHOR'S NAME: Thomas Hardy

NO OF PAGES: 508

PUBLISHER NAME: Published 1994 by Penguin Classics (first published 1891)