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Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented
de HARDY, Thomas
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1892. Second American edition. Octavo (19cm). In original brick red publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; stamped in black and gold with black clover ornaments; [vi], 455p; 11 halftone illustrations. A bright copy, somewhat rubbed; with signs of a minor repair to reattach title page; else Good. The second American book edition restored some portions of the text that had been bowdlerized for serialization in 1891. PURDY p. 76.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, was first published as a censored and serialized version in the British illustrated newspaper, The Graphic in 1891. An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition. -
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- Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- 54397
- Título
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented
- Autor
- HARDY, Thomas
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- Harper & Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1892
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature Before 1900;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Publisher's cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
