Tess Of The D`Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy penguin Classics Softcover Book

Title: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Softcover Book.
Author: Thomas Hardy.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Penguin Popular Classics.
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1994.
Year First Published: 1891.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Clays Ltd, St Ives.
Page Count: 508 pages.
Size: Width: 11cm
      Height: 18cm
      Thickness: 4cm
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891,then in book form in three volumes in 1891, and as a single volume in 1892. Though now considered a major 19th-century English novel, even Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
Tess 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 neer-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the dUrbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kina journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life.
The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birthEgdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At 16, Hardy was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, Hardy published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novelsTess of the DUrbervilles and Jude the Obscurehe announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors.
He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poets Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy. 
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Very slight water mark on rear papers.
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