Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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- Hardcover
592 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2018
Summary
Tess Durbeyfield’s father forcibly sends her off to work for the wealthy D’Urberville family, hoping to alleviate their poverty and perhaps secure her a marriage to the cruel and manipulative Alec D’Urberville. His terrible assault upon her, and the subsequent child, form the terrible heart of Tess’s tragic life - as family, love and future are taken away from her by the repressive mores of Victorian society.
An unforgettably powerful tragedy, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509857456 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509857451 |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Phillip Mallett |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 8 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 104mm x 158mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Such was the success of these early works, which included A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing. However, he had difficulty publishing Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1889) and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This, coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1895), prompted Hardy to abandon writing novels altogether and he concentrated on poetry for the rest of his life. He died in January 1928.
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