by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140623703
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«Tess of the D’Urbervilles» is the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Tess Durbeyfield, a young woman from a humble family, discovers her kinship with the aristocratic D’Urbervilles and is sent to claim part of their fortune. Set in the Wessex countryside, the novel follows Tess’s fate and her confrontation with the hypocrisy of Victorian society, in a story about class, gender, and social conventions.
Novel originally published in 1891; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
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.
