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Tess of the d'Urbervilles : a pure woman / faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy ; with a new introduction by Marcelle Clements. --
Record details
- ISBN: 0451530276 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780451530271 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxi, 407 p. : map.
- Publisher: New York : Signet Classics, [2006]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 406-407). |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 8.99 |
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| Genre: | Pastoral fiction. Didactic fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Hardy | 31681020007969 | FICTIONPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Set in a peasant village in rural Victorian England, the author's best-known classic traces the persecution of one determined young woman by the closed-minded society around her and by fate on a cosmic scale. Reissue. - Baker & Taylor
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. - Penguin Putnam
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 neâer-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the dâUrbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kinâa 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.
With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements - Random House, Inc.
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.
With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements
