Set in Hardy's Wessex Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy & double standards. Its challenging sub-title A Pure Woman infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891 & it was condemned as immoral & pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield the daughter of a poor & dissipated villager who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d' Urbeville. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly & the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy. It explores Tess's relationships with two very different men her struggle against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits & the hypocrisy of the age. ...

A heartaching portrayal of a woman faced by an impossible choice in the pursuit of happiness Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D' Urbervilles" is edited with notes by Tim Dolin & an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet in " Penguin Classics". When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D' Urbervilles & 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 & 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 & powerful criticism of social convention " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" subtitled "A Pure Woman" is one of the most moving & 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 & a selection of the Graphic illustrations. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) born Higher Brockhampton near Dorchester originally trained as an architect before earning his living as a writer. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels: " The Mayor of Casterbridge" (1886) " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" (1891) " Far from the Madding Crowd" (1874) & " Jude the Obscure" (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by " Jude the Obscure" he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems & his epic drama in verse " The Dynasts". If you enjoyed " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" you might like Daniel Defoe's " Moll Flanders" also available in " Penguin Classics". " The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists". (Virginia Woolf)."

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Harper Collins is pround to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ' My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know what you have read & seen & thought I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy & social conventions of the rural Victorian world Tess of the D' Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D' Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine & exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos & heart-rending sentiment. ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. "I would be content ay glad to live with you as your servant if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you & get glimpses of you & think of you as mine...I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth to meet you my own dear! Come to me
- come to me & save me from what threatens me!" When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D' Urbervilles & 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 & 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 & powerful criticism of social convention " Tess of the D' Urbervilles" is one of the most moving & poetic of Hardy's novels. " The Penguin English Library"
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Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D' Urbevilles & meeting her cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love & salvation she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future." ...

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Troy Phelen is a self-made billionaire one of the richest men in the United States. He is also eccentric reclusive confined to a wheelchair & looking for a way to die. Nate O' Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who's lived too hard too fast for too long. Emerging from his fourth stay in rehab he knows returning to the real world is always difficult but this time it's going to be murder. Rachel Lane is a young woman who chose to give her life to God who walked away from the modern world with all its strivings & trappings & encumbrances & went to live & work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the deepest jungles of Brazil. In a story that mixes legal suspense with a remarkable adventure their lives are forever altered by the startling secret of The Testament. ...