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Critical Studies: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles

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Thomas Hardy
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 stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville.

Language: English

Pages: 118

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: January 07, 1992

ISBN: 0140772588

ISBN 13: 9780140772586

Critical Studies: Tess Of The D'Urbervilles

2.1/5 ( ratings)

Thomas Hardy
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 stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville.

Language: English

Pages: 118

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: January 07, 1992

ISBN: 0140772588

ISBN 13: 9780140772586

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