Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author), Dolin, Tim (Editor), Dolin, Tim (Notes by), Higonnet, Margaret Randolph (Introduction by), Bickford-Smith, Coralie (Illustrator)

ISBN: 9780141040332

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Hardcover

$24.00

Pub Date: October 1, 2009

Dewey: FIC

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bookmark, Glossary, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.90" H x 7.90" L x 5.00" W ( 1.60 lbs) 592 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Classics | Literary | Romance | Suspense

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000005998 ( Tess of the d'Urbervilles)

Reading level: 9.50

Interest level: UG

Point value: 23.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable.

Review Quotes: "[Tess of the D'Urbervilles is] Hardy's finest, most complex and most notorious novel . . . The novel is not a mere plea for compassion for the eternal victim, though that is the banner it flies. It also involves a profound questioning of contemporary morality." -from the Introduction by Patricia Ingham