by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431353
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«Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman» is Thomas Hardy's classic novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Tess Durbeyfield, a young peasant girl from rural Wessex, sees her life transformed when her family discovers a supposed kinship with the D'Urbervilles. Through her story, Thomas Hardy portrays the harshness of Victorian society, moral hypocrisy, innocence, and the weight of fate.
Originally published in 1891, this edition includes an introduction by A. Alvarez and editing by David Skilton.
For readers of classics and Victorian novels interested in a critical look at rural English society of the nineteenth century.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
