Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
The author’s later-editions preface answers criticism of the novel. Chapter XIX then exposes a gap between Angel’s assumptions and Tess’s experience. Read these voices separately, with care for the novel’s depiction of coercion, suffering and social judgement. Reproduced author notes reach March 1912; the underlying printed publisher remains unspecified.
Who it suits
Readers interested in fiction, inward experience and the limits of judging another person’s life.
Reading experience
Demanding; sustained tragic fiction involving coercion, suffering and harsh social judgement. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg English transcription, eBook 110; includes author notes dated 1891, 1895 and 1912; underlying print publisher unspecified; catalogue HTML ISBN
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798238001104
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