A partir de 15 ans
Hardy tells the story of Tess, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d’Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec d’Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects her — on their wedding night — after learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination. —Irving Howe What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace — I don’t know which. —D. H. Lawrence The greatest tragic writer among English novelists. —Virginia Woolf A singular beauty and charm. —Henry James
État : Bon état, en savoir plus
Roman, Broché, couverture souple, 448 pages
Everyman, 1984, ISBN : 9780460010566
Langue : Anglais