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Informationen zum Autor Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s. Klappentext 'Don't think of what's past!' said she. 'I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?' Excited by her new-found freedom, but blind to the dangers that come with youth and beauty, dairymaid Tess Durbeyfield ventures into the outside world, determined to escape the trappings of rural poverty. Rumour has it her family are related to the wealthy D'Urbervilles, and Tess intends to claim this connection. But her entanglement with Alec D'Urberville sparks a chain of events that will haunt Tess for years, tarnishing her hopes of a better life and the fleeting happiness found with her true love, Angel Clare. Challenging the hypocrisy and rigid conventions of Victorian society, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a powerful critique of class and social morality, told with searing pathos and heart-rending sentiment. Zusammenfassung HarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hardy
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780008542122
• ISBN: 978-0-00-854212-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Collins Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Biography & True Stories, Prose: non-fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Social & cultural history, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Social classes, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Classic fiction: general and literary, England;Countryside;Fate;El James;Fifty Shades