Bantam Classics, September 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Used Good. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. 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. -

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Bookseller: Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 385883
Title: Tess of the D'urbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0553211684
ISBN 13: 9780553211689
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: September 1992
Pages: 480
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction/General;

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