- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015569
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
- Published: 1 May 2010
- ISBN: 9781407015569
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Hardy never used his "country" and his Greek ambitions to better effect
Melvyn Bragg
Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination... Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting
Irving Howe
Tess's beauty and the effect that it has on others gave me a sense of the destructive power of sex
Rufus Wainwright
There's something about Hardy especially that appeals to the melancholic girl
Belle de Jour
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles has a lush sensuality about the heat of summer and the heat of lust which makes the gorgeousness of Hardy's heroine and his country of Wessex both seems utterly desirable as the tale of tragic fate unfolds
The Times
Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal
The Times
