Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

Tim Dolin (Editor), Margaret Higonnet (Introduction), and Margaret Randolph Higonnet (Introduction)

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'The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists' Virginia Woolf

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Edited with notes by TIM DOLIN and an Introduction by MARGARET R. HIGONNET

  • ISBN10 0141439599
  • ISBN13 9780141439594
  • Publish Date 30 January 2003 (first published December 1957)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics