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A heartbreaking portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, 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. With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, subtitled "A Pure Woman," is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy's novels. Based on the three-volume first edition that shocked readers when first published in 1891, this edition includes as appendices: Hardy's Prefaces, the Landscapes of Tess, episodes originally censored from the Graphic periodical version, and a selection of the Graphic illustrations. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics Reprint, 2003)

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Thomas Hardy

A. Alvarez

David Galef

District of Columbia

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All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. &&LI&&RBarnes & Noble Classics &&L/I&&Rpulls together a constellation of influences--biographical, historical, and literary--to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works.&&L/DIV&&R&&L/DIV&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R &&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&RHighly controversial because of its frank look at the sexual hypocrisy of Victorian society, &&LB&&RThomas Hardy&&L/B&&R''s &&LI&&RTess of the D''Urbervilles&&L/I&&R was nonetheless a great commercial success when it appeared in 1891. It is now considered one of the finest novels in English.&&LBR&&R&&LBR&&RUsing richly poetic language to frame a shattering narrative of love, seduction, betrayal, and murder, Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d''Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d''Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her--on their wedding night--after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.&&LBR&&R&&LBR&&RWith its compassionate portrait of a young rural woman, powerful criticism of social convention, and disarming consideration of the role of destiny in human life, &&LI&&RTess of the D''Urbervilles&&L/I&&R is one of the most moving and memorable of Hardy''s novels.&&LBR&&R&&L/P&&R&&LP style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&&R&&LSTRONG&&RDavid Galef&&L/B&&R&&L/B&&R has published nine books: the novels &&LI&&RFlesh&&L/I&&R and &&LI&&RTurning Japanese;&&L/I&&R two childrens books, &&LI&&RThe Little Red Bicycle&&L/I&&R and&&LI&&R Tracks;&&L/I&&R two translations of Japanese proverbs, &&LI&&REven Monkeys Fall from Trees&&L/I&&R and &&LI&&REven a Stone Buddha Can Talk;&&L/I&&R a work of literary criticism, &&LI&&RThe Supporting Cast;&&L/I&&R an edited anthology of essays called &&LI&&RSecond Thoughts: A Focus on Rereading;&&L/I&&R and, most recently, the short-story collection &&LI&&RLaugh Track.&&L/I&&R In addition, he has written more than seventy short stories for magazines ranging from the British &&LI&&RPunch&&L/I&&R to the Czech &&LI&&RPrague Revue,&&L/I&&R the Canadian &&LI&&RPrism International,&&L/I&&R and the American &&LI&&RShenandoah.&&L/I&&R His essays and reviews have appeared in the &&LI&&RNew York Times, Newsday,&&L/I&&R the &&LI&&RVillage Voice, Twentieth Century Literature, The Columbia History of the British Novel,&&L/I&&R and many other places. He is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he also administers the M.F.A. program in creative writing. &&L/P&&R&&L/DIV&&R

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

A Pure Woman

An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...

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.

With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements 

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