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About Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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.

About Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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.

About Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love.

Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.

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About Tess of the d’Urbervilles

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.

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Product Details

Category: Fiction Classics | Romance | Historical Fiction

Paperback | $10.00
Published by Modern Library
Feb 13, 2001 | 544 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375756795

Category: Fiction Classics | Romance | Historical Fiction

Mass Market Paperback | $6.95
Published by Bantam Classics
May 01, 1984 | 480 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553211689

Category: Fiction Classics | Romance | Historical Fiction

Hardcover | $24.00
Published by Everyman’s Library
Nov 26, 1991 | 522 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780679405863

Category: Fiction Classics | Romance | Historical Fiction

Ebook | $1.99
Published by Bantam Classics
Nov 23, 2004 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780553900828

Category: Fiction Classics | Romance | Historical Fiction

Ebook | $2.99
Published by Modern Library
Nov 01, 2000 | 544 Pages | ISBN 9780679641513

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Praise

“[Tess of the D’Urbervilles is] Hardy’s finest, most complex and most notorious novel . . . The novel is not a mere plea for compassion for the eternal victim, though that is the banner it flies. It also involves a profound questioning of contemporary morality.” –from the Introduction by Patricia Ingham