Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Everyman's Library)

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Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardys early work Tess of the DUrbervilles 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. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)