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Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780008542122 (paperback)
Classification	F HARD
Personal Name	Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Title	Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy.
Production & Copyright Details	London : William Collins, 2022.
Physical Description	xv, 472 pages ; 20 cm.
Content type	text
Series	Collins Classics
Note	First published in 1891.
Summary Note	'My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen, and thought, I feel what a nothing I am!' Challenging the hypocrisy and social conventions of the rural Victorian world, Tess of the D'Urbervilles follows the story of Tess Durbeyfield as she attempts to escape the poverty of her background, seeking wealth by claiming connection with the aristocratic D'Urberville family. It is through Tess's relationships with two very different men that Hardy tells the story of his tragic heroine, and exposes the double standards of the world that she inhabits with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment.
Subject - Topical Term	Young women -- England -- Fiction
	Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
	Poor families -- Fiction
	Social classes -- England -- Fiction
	Women murderers -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	Wessex (England) -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction