Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy'Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination,' said Irving Howe.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Unorthodox Beauty
By Peter J. CasagrandeExamines Hardy's novel, concentrating on the theme of the ramifications of beauty and ugliness
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical...
By Thomas HardyIn addition, the biographical and historical context for the work is outlined and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms provided.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy“The Novel as Moral Protest: Tess of the d'Urbervilles. ... 179–191, contains Ted Spivey's important “Thomas Hardy's Tragic Hero,” which endeavors to define the internal elements that render such characters as Tess tragic.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyA ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyCruelly seduced by her relative, the cynical Alec D'Urberville, betrayed by the moral Angel Clare and haunted by her guilt and shame, Tess becomes Hardy's indictment of all the crimes...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
By Thomas HardyThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not...
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyWhen Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyThe life of a simple country girl in nineteenth-century England is destroyed by her father's determination to use her in order to regain the family's former social standing.
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
By Thomas HardyTess of the D'urbervilles
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented; The Seven Phases, Complete and Unabridged
By Thomas HardyThe novel is vivid in describing country life, and the various class distinctions which were definitive of Victorian culture.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyA young girl is forced through circumstances and loyalty beyond the pale of conventional morality.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyA young woman struggles against tradition and circumstance in this novel of love, class, and deceit from the author of Far from the Madding Crowd.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyAnother important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim; despite being, in Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
By 哈代本书讲述了美丽善良的农村姑娘苔丝曾遭富人奸污。新婚之夜她向新郎讲述自己的不幸遭遇,却不被新郎理解且弃她而去。后为生计所迫,只好“舍身救家”与富人同居。后新郎回心转意愿与苔丝言归于好。绝望中的苔丝认为富人毁了她一生幸福,便杀了他,自己也被处死刑的故事。
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas HardyThis unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions.
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
By Thomas HardyIn Tess Durbeyfield, Thomas Hardy created one of the most tragic heroines of English literature. Against a backdrop of a changing and haunting landscape, beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield is...
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Tess of the D'urbervilles: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
By Thomas HardyHarper's wrote that ""There is more real poetry in Tess of the d'Urbervilles alone than in hundreds of more pretentiously poetical volumes."" Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) is a tragic...