{"product_id":"penguin-classics-tess-of-the-durbervilles-paperback","title":"Penguin Classics - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Penguin English Library Edition of \u003ci\u003eTess of\nthe D'Urbervilles \u003c\/i\u003eby Thomas Hardy\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"I would be content, ay, glad, to live with you as your servant, if I\nmay not as your wife; so that I could only be near you, and get glimpses of\nyou, and think of you as mine ... I long for only one thing in heaven or earth\nor under the earth, to meet you, my own dear! Come to me - come to me, and save\nme from what threatens me!\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the\nwealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her\n'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel Clare,\nseems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal\nher past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. With its sensitive\ndepiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism of social\nconvention, \u003ci\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most\nmoving and poetic of Hardy's novels.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from\nthe eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First\nWorld War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an\napprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London,\nwhere he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset,\nwhose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing.\nBetween 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eTess of the\nD'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e. This final work was\nreceived savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last\nthirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44644334338255,"sku":"9780141199948","price":17.44,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_0dc41f92-d793-443c-b339-fc3099a0ebe7.jpg?v=1761540055","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/penguin-classics-tess-of-the-durbervilles-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}