Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Hardcover Book

Title: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Hardcover Book.
Author: Thomas Hardy.
Illustrations By: Gene Sparkman.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: Readers Digest.
Publisher: Readers Digest, 1991.
Year First Published: 1891.
Format: Hardcover Book.
Printed By: R R Donnelley & Sons Company, USA.
Page Count: 383 pages.
Width: 16cm
Height: 23cm
Thickness: 3.5cm
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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 ne er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin a 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 birth Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester, England. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. 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 novels Tess of the D Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure he 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.
Condition: Very Good, all pages and binding intact, no loose pages. Gilt lettering on the spine, corners are sharp and no inscriptions.
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