The Collected Novels of Thomas Hardy, Volume II [2]: Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Jude the Obscure (The Modern Library)

New York: The Modern Library, 1994. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x8. 1994 first thus, no Toledano number, $20.00 jacket price, brown decorative endpapers with an updated rendering of Modern Library's iconic torchbearer. Board edges faded, a few dents on jacket spine, crease down front jacket flap, 1 inch ink mark on front board. 892 pp. Volume II only. Tess, John Durbeyfield's eldest daughter, is a hardworking and intelligent girl, but also very innocent, willing to do anything to help her parents and siblings. Practically pushed by his parents, he will travel to the house of some distant family members. There she will be harassed by Alec, the son of the widow who owns the place. Too young to know the world, Tess will end up being the victim of the distant cousin, which, without a doubt, will leave a very black stain on her moral file. But although Tess is willing to stay single, soon love crosses her path. Is it possible that the girl can finally be happy with the man she loves? Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hard. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.