"Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals... had ended his sport with Tess."
Set against the lush but unforgiving landscape of Hardy's fictional Wessex, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is the heartbreaking story of a young woman caught in the grinding gears of social hypocrisy and cruel fate. When Tess Durbeyfield is sent by her impoverished family to claim kinship with the wealthy d’Urbervilles, she is met with a betrayal that alters the course of her life forever.
Caught between the predatory Alec d'Urberville and the moralistic Angel Clare, Tess struggles to find her own "purity" in a world that has already judged her. Thomas Hardy’s masterpiece is a searing indictment of the double standards of the 19th century and a lyrical, devastating tribute to a woman who is "more sinned against than sinning."
