Thomas Hardy set the story of a Victorian farm girl against a countryside that judges her long before anyone hears her side, and the result has stayed in print for well over a century.
The narrative follows Tess through field work, family pressure and a moral code that measures women and men by separate rules. Hardy writes the Wessex landscape as closely as he writes his people, and the chapters move steadily from rural labour to consequence, letting readers trace how class and circumstance narrow one life.
What this edition offers:
• The complete text of Hardy's late Victorian novel in a readable English setting
• A portrait of rural Wessex drawn from the author's own regional knowledge
• Themes of class, justice and moral double standards that still prompt argument
• A format convenient for coursework annotation and repeat reading
Suited to literature students, reading groups and anyone assembling a shelf of English classics, this Fingerprint Classics edition is available at Boipoka.