by Thomas Hardy · Oxford University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194241847
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«Tess of the D'Urbervilles» is the abridged edition of Thomas Hardy's novel, published by Oxford University Press in paperback (96 pages, in English).
Tess Durbeyfield is a young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex. When they discover their kinship with the wealthy d'Urbervilles, she is sent to claim part of that fortune. The story portrays rural England and addresses social class, Victorian morality, and fate as forces that shape her life.
The original novel was first published in 1891; this English version appeared in 1979.
Aimed at students of English as a foreign language (EFL), suitable for classroom work or independent reading.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
