Tess of the d’Urbervilles
byThomas Hardy
CompletedTragedy,DramaPublic domain
Public-domain text, with thanks to Standard Ebooks and other free-text projects.
Tess of the d’Urbervilles is said to be Thomas Hardy’s fictional masterpiece and is considered to be an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. It initially appeared in a censored, serialised version in The Graphic in 1891 and was published in a single volume the following year.
