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  • Published: 1 January 1984
  • ISBN: 9780553211689
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $16.99
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles




The new paperback series: Penguin English Library

Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy’s immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d’Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature.

  • Published: 1 January 1984
  • ISBN: 9780553211689
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $16.99
Categories:

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About the author

Thomas Hardy

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.

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