by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620207
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«Tess of the D'Urbervilles» is Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Tess Durbeyfield, a young peasant woman driven by poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles. Meeting Alec leads her to ruin; Angel Clare, by contrast, offers her love and salvation, and she must choose between confessing her past or staying silent. Hardy criticizes Victorian conventions and portrays his protagonist's tragedy.
The novel was originally published in 1891 and is set in the English rural world.
For readers of Victorian classics and fiction with social criticism.
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.
