Contested
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA young woman’s one youthful mistake follows her through every subsequent chance at happiness, judged far more harshly by the society around her than by the book itself. Hardy subtitled it a pure woman, deliberately provoking readers who disagreed. It cost him a great deal of his remaining goodwill with the critics of his day, and he clearly considered that a fair trade.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 10 hr 10 min
- Where to find it
- On the Contested shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #110. In the public domain in the United States.