The Penguin English Library Edition of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. Tess Durbeyfield’s life is changed forever when family poverty drives her to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a share of their fortune. Her encounter with ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall — and the love of Angel Clare, who appears to offer salvation, arrives shadowed by the question of whether Tess can trust him with the truth of her past.
“I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I may not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of you, and think of you as mine … I long for only one thing in heaven or earth or under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me – come to me, and save me from what threatens me!”
Tender in its portrait of the wronged Tess and fierce in its critique of social convention, Tess of the D’Urbervilles remains one of the most poetic and moving of Hardy’s novels. The Penguin English Library — 100 editions of the finest fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the earliest novels to the eve of the First World War.
ISBN 13: 9780141199948
Author: Thomas Hardy
