Thomas Hardy · 1891
Tess Durbeyfield is undone by two men and by Victorian morality. Read Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy page by page and explore its network of 744…
The main portion of the following story appeared—with slight modifications—in the Graphic newspaper; other chapters, more especially addressed to adult readers, in the Fortnightly Review and the National Observer, as episodic sketches. My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as originally written two years ago.
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