Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

372 pages first pub 1891 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance dark emotional sad slow-paced
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Readers drawn to tragic, socially critical narratives that explore complex moral dilemmas and the resilience of a compelling, flawed protagonist against a backdrop of pastoral beauty and societal injustice would find this novel profoundly moving.

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The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated rural peasants. One day, Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham, an amateur genealo...

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