Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, also known as Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Tess of the d'Urbervilles or just Tess, is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1891. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic. Though now considered an important work of English literature, the book received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual mores of Hardy's day. The original manuscript is on display at the British Library, showing that it was...
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Author:Thomas Hardy
Year published:1891
Number of editions:51

Author of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
June 2, 1840 - January 11, 1928
Birthplace:Stinsford

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a...
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Additional works by Thomas Hardy
BookGenre
Far from the Madding Crowd Novel
The Woodlanders
The Return of the Native
The Hand of Ethelberta Novel
Under the Greenwood Tree
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character Novel
Jude the Obscure
Two on a Tower Novel
A Pair of Blue Eyes Novel
Desperate Remedies Novel
The Poor Man and the Lady
A Laodicean
The Trumpet-Major
Life's Little Ironies
A changed man & other stories
Thomas Hardy's Studies, specimens &c. notebook
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
An imaginative woman and other stories
Time's laughingstocks
Stories of Wessex
A Laodicean, or, The castle of the De Stancys
The fiddler of the reels and other stories, 1888-1900
The essential Hardy
Thomas Hardy's "Facts" notebook
"The fiddler of the reels" and other stories
Thomas Hardy's public voice
Selected poems [of] Thomas Hardy
An indiscretion in the life of an heiress and other stories
The Well-Beloved
A Mere Interlude Novel
darkling thrush, and other poems by Thomas Hardy
To Shakespeare after three hundred years
old clock
Letters
life and work of Thomas Hardy
Our cave at West Poley
personal notebooks of Thomas Hardy
Winter words in various moods and metres
To please his wife
poetry of Thomas Hardy
selection of poems
Wessex Heights
architectural notebook of Thomas Hardy
Giuda l'oscuro
Wessex Novels
Maumbury ring
Outside the gates of the world
three strangers
Nouvelles choisies
Compassion, an ode
Yuletide in a younger world
Chosen poems of Thomas Hardy
Poems
The variorum edition of the complete poems of Thomas Hardy
group of noble dames
Two by Hardy
Collected poems of Thomas Hardy
Poems by Thomas Hardy
Tėss iz roda d'Ėrbervilleĭ
triuir choigreach
Hardy
Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, 1920-1922
Friends beyond
short stories of Thomas Hardy
How I built myself a house
Wessex tales ..
works of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse, with prefaces and notes
[The Wessex novels]
Nguoi tinh dau tien nguoi yeu cuoi cung
Great short works of Thomas Hardy
gates along the path
Hardy at home
Wessex poems, and other verses
Poems of Thomas Hardy
Late lyrics and earlier with many other verses
Penguin Thomas Hardy
Yuvaya dönüs
complete poems of Thomas Hardy
Old Mrs. Chundle and other stories with The famous tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
Hardy's selected poems
Dzhud nezametnyĭ
My spirit will not haunt the mound
Our exploits at West Poley
Moments of vision and miscellaneous verses
original manuscripts and papers of Thomas Hardy
Tess in the theatre
Notebooks
Hardy's love poems
choice of Thomas Hardy's poems
pinnacled tower
Revenge is sweet
Some Romano-British relics found at Max Gate, Dorchester
Tėss iz roda d'Ėrbervilleĭ
literary notes of Thomas Hardy
hope song of the soldiers' sweethearts and wives
oxen
portable Thomas Hardy
Sous le regard du berger
Two Wessex tales
August midnight
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Characters in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Angel Clare
Angel Clare

Angel Clare is a fictional character from Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

John Durbeyfield
John Durbeyfield

John Durbeyfield is a fictional character from Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Film adaptations of Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess
Tess
Release date:October 1979
Directed by:Roman Polanski
Genre:Tragedy, Romantic drama, Film adaptation, Romance Film, Indie, Period piece, Crime Fiction, Melodrama, Drama
Rated:PG (USA)
Trishna
Trishna
Release date:September 2011
Directed by:Michael Winterbottom
Genre:Drama

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    How many pages is the book: "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"?
  • A:
    The book has 517 pages.
  • Q:
    When was the book "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" first printed?
  • A:
    The work was released in 1891.

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