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- A Group of Noble Dames
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles : a Pure Woman
- Wessex Tales
- Wessex Tales : That is to Say : an Imaginative Woman, the Three Strangers, the Withered Arm, Fellow-Townsmen, Interlopers at the Knap, the Distracted Preacher
- Wessex Tales : Strange, Lively, and Commonplace
- The Well-Beloved; Sketch of a Temperament
- The Well-Beloved; a Sketch of a Temperament. with a Map of Wessex
- Under the Greenwood Tree; a Rural Painting of the Dutch School
- Under the Greenwood Tree : or, the Mellstock Quire : a Rural Painting of the Dutch School
- Under the Greenwood Tree or the Mellstock Quire : a Rural Painting of the Dutch School
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband—Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act.