Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback installed in her old bedroom

installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion

drug-induced divinities

Charmain is now also looking after an extremely magical stray dog

she awakens safe and sound―200 years in the future

her protector

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Wordsworth Classics Book cover type:Paperback installed in her old bedroomIntroduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended