Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Hardcover)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles Book Description

Coming to PBS in January 2009a a MasterpieceTM Classic production of Thomas Hardyas "Tess of the DaUrbervillesTess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her neaer-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the daUrbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kina a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. With its sensitive depiction of one of literatureas most admirable and tragic heroines and its powerful criticism of social convention, "Tess of the DaUrbervilles" is one of the most moving and poetic of Thomas Hardyas novels.

About the Author :

Thomas Hardy has contributed to Tess of the D'Urbervilles as an author. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), enduring author of the twentieth century, wrote the classics Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and many other works.

Tim Dolin has contributed to Tess of the D'Urbervilles as an author. Tim Dolin is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of George Eliot (2005) and has edited and written introductions for a number of Penguin and World's Classics editions of Hardy, including Tess of the d'Urbervilles, A Pair of Blue Eyes.

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