Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Book Synopsis Tess of the D'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy (A Romantic Tale Of A Beautiful Young Woman) "Annotated Volume" by : Thomas Hardy
Download or read book Tess of the D'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy (A Romantic Tale Of A Beautiful Young Woman) "Annotated Volume" written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination. -Irving Howe What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace - I don't know which. -D. H. Lawrence The greatest tragic writer among English novelists. -Virginia Woolf A singular beauty and charm. -Henry James