Tess of the d'urbervilles, paperback/thomas gilbert

Description Beautiful new edition with cover from David Dean Faber Childrens Classics have accessible font sizes for easier reading.

Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor villager, learns she may be descendant from the rich dUrberville family.

She fails to claim kinship and is taken advantage of by the libertine Alec dUrberville.

She then meets the son of a local reverend, Angel Clare, who she begins to fall in love with, but tragedy follows Tess as she continues to run from her past.

Will she get her chance at love or will her past doom her future? About the author Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840.

He was one of the most renowned poets and novelists in English literary history.

Hardy wrote fourteen novels, three volumes of short stories, and several poems between the years 1871 and 1897, including his greatest novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the DUrbevilles .

These received negative reviews at the time, but have become true classics.