- Published: 15 March 2015
- ISBN: 9780345803986
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $22.99
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
In a beautiful new Vintage Classics package: one of Hardy's most famous novels, the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day.
One of Thomas Hardy’s most famous novels is the story of an innocent young woman victimized by the double standards of her day.
Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Hardy’s early work, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.
- Published: 15 March 2015
- ISBN: 9780345803986
- Imprint: Knopf US
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 480
- RRP: $22.99
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About the author
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.