Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy, 1891

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy, 1891
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Faithful Woman. London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891.

First edition in book form, first issue of Hardy’s greatest novel, a fine copy in the original cloth. A beautiful copy. “Like Flaubert's Madame Bovary or Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, the novel take its title from its heroine, held in intense single focus, and its plot structure from her sexual and marital history" (Boumelha). Its transcendence of the moral standards of late-Victorian England meant that Tess was substantially bowdlerised for its serial publication, before this appearance in book form allowed Hardy to “piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together and print it complete, as originally written.” Purdy, pp.67-78; Sadleir 1114.

Three volumes, octavo. Half-titles (a little foxing internally). Original smooth tan cloth (minute shelf-wear, small stray ink mark to cover of vol. 3); custom box.

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