"A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."
--- Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles

One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a "pure woman" who is victimized both by conventional morality and its antithesis. Born near Dorchester, Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) set most of his stories in the region between Berkshire and Dorset in the fictional county of Wessex. He was a controversial writer whose work often showed the result of flouting the rigid Victorian moral code --- his novel JUDE THE OBSCURE was (allegedly) burned by the Bishop of Wakefield for its shocking content. Hardy was an unflinching observer and in TESS has left us some unforgettable vignettes of rural life in late 19th-century England: the slow death of a flock of wounded pheasants, the monotony of field labour under an iron gray sky, and the itinerant farm worker's seasonal round.

Médias	Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé	1 avril 2016
ISBN13	9781530827459
Éditeurs	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	318
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 18 mm · 467 g
Langue et grammaire	English

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