Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Ubervilles

by Cedric Watts and Jolyon Connell

Few novels have caused more of a stir than Tess of the d'Urbervilles. In England, the Duchess of Abercorn stated that she divided her dinner-guests according to their view of Tess. If they deemed her "a little harlot", she put them in one group; if they said "Poor wronged innocent ", she put them in another. It is a telling illustration of the novel's word-of-mouth success. The Daily News wittily claimed that "pessimism (we had almost said Tessimism)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907776095
• ISBN13: 9781907776090
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Connell Publishing
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.3" x 6.8"