Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec d'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her child, and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess is very much a victim of her society. She is bound by social and gender constraints until she takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands. From the very first sight of the child with her hair done in ribbons, to the image of the womanly Tess lying like a lamb on the altar at Stonehenge, Hardy brings Tess to life with an extraordinary vividness that makes her live in the heart of the reader.
- ISBN10 0451519248
- ISBN13 9780451519245
- Publish Date 1 August 1987 (first published 1 February 1964)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 September 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Penguin Random House Australia
- Format Hardcover
- Language English