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Tess of the D'Urbervilles, A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented
The story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man, which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night, and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder.___
Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman faithfully presented
Het leven van een onschuldige jonge vrouw die het slachtoffer wordt van de eerzucht van haar ouders en van de conventionele moraal.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy
A country girl forced to sin against her will.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic. It is Hardy's penultimate novel, followed by Jude the Obscure. Though now considered a great classic of English literature, the book received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of Hardy's day.
Tess of the d'Urbevilles, a pure woman
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a pure woman faithfully presented
Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy d'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angel Clare.
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The story of a simple country girl whose family's pretentions lead to her destruction.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by a British illustrated newspaper. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of late Victorian England. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman. Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy. Introduction by P.N. Furbank
Tess of the Dúrbervilles : a pure woman
The tragic story of a young woman victimized by poverty, lust and hypocrisy in Victorian England.
The downfall of Tess begins when she is cunningly seduced by Alec D'Urberville. Yet, in her natural purity and goodness, she transcends the moral defilement imposed upon her by Alec and Angel Clare and remains the tragically wronged innocent.
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A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.
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Tess is the victim of both a rigid Victorian moral code and the unfortunate circumstances of her family life.
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Tess Durbeyfield is hopelessly torn between her desire for two men. Alec d'Urberville is a dissolute young man who seduced her in a lonely wood. Angel Clare is a provincial, moralistic and unforgiving husband. Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's "bestseller," and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men--Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband--Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.
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A flippant, condescending remark by a country clergyman sets in motion a series of events leading inexorably to Tess Durbeyfield's downfall.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman, faithfully presented
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The story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man, which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night, and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder.
Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec d'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her child, and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess is very much a victim of her society. She is bound by social and gender constraints until she takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands. From the very first sight of the child with her hair done in ribbons, to the image of the womanly Tess lying like a lamb on the altar at Stonehenge, Hardy brings Tess to life with an extraordinary vividness that makes her live in the heart of the reader.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy's first novel concerns a country girl forced to sin against her will.
A 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. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman : faithfully presented
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men?Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband?Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. '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. 'In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting.' Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and London Weekend Television. Justine Waddell (Anna Karenina) stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn (Chandler & Co.) is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville. The cast also includes John McEnery (Black Beauty) as Jack Durbeyfield and Lesley Dunlop (The Elephant Man) as Joan Durbeyfield. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is directed by Ian Sharp and produced by Sarah Wilson, with a screenplay by Ted Whitehead; it was filmed in Hardy country, the beautiful English countryside in Dorset where Thomas Hardy set his novels.
A romantic tale of love gone astray and an indictment of the British class system, as revered by some Victorians.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles; a pure woman faithfully presented
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles : pure woman
Een jonge vrouw, slachtoffer van de wetten der erfelijkheid en de conventionele moraal, eindigt haar leven aan de galg.
The tragic story of Tess, who is victimized by lust, poverty, and Victorian hypocrisy.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women. Tess, a beautiful young woman, is pushed on her rich "relatives" by her grasping father. When the young Lord does with her as he likes, Tess's whole life falls into ruins from which she attempts to free herself. The novel met with mixed reviews upon publication, because it challenged the precepts of society. It is now considered a classic of English literature.
This is a novel of romance, seduction, revenge, and flight.
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A country girl is forced to sin against her will.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure women
The chance discovery by a young peasant woman that she is a descendant of the noble family of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Thomas Hardy's impassioned story tells of hope and disappointment, rejection and enduring love.
Tragic story of a woman betrayed.
Tess of the d'Ubervilles : a pure woman
"Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret"--Website.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles; a pure woman, faithfully presented
She's no angel Tess is just a humble milkmaid when her rich landlord has his wicked way with her. Her new beau, the smarmy Angel Clare, is none too pleased when he finds out she's already been deflowered. What is a girl to do? Take bloody revenge of course!
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles a pure woman
Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angel Clare. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth century literature.
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Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and abandoned, she finds employment as a milkmaid before her steadfast integrity is rewarded by the love of Angel Clare.
Tess is just a humble milkmaid when the local landowner has his wicked way. Her new beau, the smarmy Angel Clare, is none too pleased when he finds out she's already been deflowered. What is a girl to do? Bloody revenge of course, and an ending to touch the hardest of hearts.
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An English woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control.
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This is the extended annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the author. This book has made Mr. Hardy one of the most prominent English novelist. The power and the movement of the story are so great that it is only when we read a review of it that we are conscious that its author had any purpose save that which is common to every true writer of fiction-viz.: to tell a story which shall please. But this unconsciousness of a novelist's purpose is the highest tribute that can be paid to his work. Tess, the milkmaid heroine, has fallen from virtue through no fault of her own. Subsequently her great passion for a second and nobler lover sweeps her into a marriage with him after she has failed to tell him of her condition, although she has attempted to do so. Her confession of her secret to her husband is one of the most powerful and painful scenes in all literature. After the weak man has deserted her, she undergoes in patience a life of unspeakable torture, but at last falls again to her former betrayer in order to keep her mother and her family from starvation. Her husband returns to her, and in her remorse she stabs her betrayer to death. After a brief period of ecstatic bliss with the now repentant man, whose desertion has brought her to such a pass, she is seized by the officers of the law and led to the scaffold.
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This 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 genealogist, has discovered that ""Durbeyfield"" is a corruption of ""D'Urberville, "" the surname of a noble Norman family.
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The 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.
Betrayed by the two men in her life -- Alec D'Urberville, her seducer/rapist and father of her fated child; and Angel, her intellectual and pious husband -- Tess takes justice, and her own destiny, into her delicate hands.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a pure women faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy
Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville cousins, Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angle Clare. Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth century literature.
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