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Fiction · 1891

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

Reading time
about 11 h
Length
150,985 words · 388 pages in print
Structure
59 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor Wessex family that has just learned it descends from the ancient d’Urbervilles, is sent to claim kinship with a rich family of that name — and the rest of her short life follows from what happens there. Thomas Hardy subtitled the book “A Pure Woman” and published it in 1891, to praise and outrage.

It is the most read of his novels, and with Jude the Obscure the one that made him give up fiction for poetry.

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Contents

  1. Explanatory Note to the First Edition
  2. Author’s Preface to the Fifth and Later Editions
  3. Phase the First — The Maiden
  4. I
  5. II
  6. III
  7. IV
  8. V
  9. VI
  10. VII
  11. VIII
  12. IX
  13. X
  14. XI
  15. Phase the Second — Maiden No More
  16. XII
  17. XIII
  18. XIV
  19. XV
  20. Phase the Third — The Rally
  21. XVI
  22. XVII
  23. XVIII
  24. XIX
  25. XX
  26. XXI
  27. XXII
  28. XXIII
  29. XXIV
  30. Phase the Fourth — The Consequence
  31. XXV
  32. XXVI
  33. XXVII
  34. XXVIII
  35. XXIX
  36. XXX
  37. XXXI
  38. XXXII
  39. XXXIII
  40. XXXIV
  41. Phase the Fifth — The Woman Pays
  42. XXXV
  43. XXXVI
  44. XXXVII
  45. XXXVIII
  46. XXXIX
  47. XL
  48. XLI
  49. XLII
  50. XLIII
  51. XLIV
  52. Phase the Sixth — The Convert
  53. XLV
  54. XLVI
  55. XLVII
  56. XLVIII
  57. XLIX
  58. L
  59. LI
  60. LII
  61. Phase the Seventh — Fulfilment
  62. LIII
  63. LIV
  64. LV
  65. LVI
  66. LVII
  67. LVIII
  68. LIX

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Thomas Hardy

1840–1928 · Victorian

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