Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good condition, Gold gilt has one small bump at bottom, small imperfection on top gilt./No dust jacket as issued
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About This Item
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
Illustrated by Sir Hubert vov Herkomer,R. A. Very Good condition, Gold gilt has one small bump at bottom, small imperfection on top gilt. High quality paper. acid free paper is 60 pound Franklin Library 1854 Cream. Pages that are sewn not glued into the binding. Gold gilded page edges on all three sides. Raised spine bands that give each book that distinctive antique look. A very good copy
Synopsis
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. -
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- YJS BOXES OF BOOKS (US)
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- biblio 646
- Title
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Sir Hubert vov Herkomer,R. A
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition, Gold gilt has one small bump at bottom, small imperfection on top gilt.
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1981-1991
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- (1982-1981)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; FICTION / Romance / Adult; Christmas Catalog; FRANKLIN LIBRARY COLLECTION;
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