Tess of the d'Urbervilles (AmazonClassics Edition)

Best book and got in a very good condition. Worth for your time!

Good quality

Amazing

Book is nice but it's a pirated book the story is nice but I felt sad as the cover came but destroyed 😞

It's really a great book

Pages are great. Cover is ok.

Good

Good

Tragic & sad but with significant and somewhat contemporary themes running through it, an excellent read. Love, control and organised religion are the themes.

''Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' is a tragic love story about a young married couple who separate from each other when just after their marriage the girl reveals to her husband her secret that she is not a ''maiden'' anymore. I enjoyed it although I skipped several pages due to their abundance of unnecessary detailed descriptions. It was not an exciting read but very satisfying. If you are familiar with Anthony Trollope, you'll see that ''Tess of the D'Urbervilles'' is like a concise version of his novels, which are usally very voluminous, but much, much better.

Amazing! Good book! A nice classic, and lovely to read. The book itself is perfect, penguin classics is my favorite, the cover is fun. Love the chickens and the colors. Good, and readable. Perfect!

"The art of our necessities is strange, that can make vile things precious"—this maxim of King Lear’s is well demonstrated in Hardy’s novel, as the ultimate consequences of Tess and her parents’ proceedings force her to embrace the proposal of the man whom she loathed and blamed for all her tribulations. Nevertheless, while Alec was indeed a reprobate, he had no clue as to the extent of the mischief he wrought on Tess’s life, since she chose to run away in silence and bear the burden on her own rather than avail herself of the situation and fulfill her parents’ whim to have her become the wife of a rich, distant relation of a glorious lineage. Fine, Alec was reckless by nature (and, if he bore the name D’Urberville, it was because his father had liked the sound of it, thus assuming it just to impress rustics more ignorant than himself, yet not having the shred of a rightful claim to it), but we can’t say of Alec that he also was deceitful or maintain positively that he would have shirked his duty to Tess. Inasmuch as he made no promises whatever, he couldn’t break any, right? Now Tess, out of shame and pride, resumes her position of dairymaid. Later on, out of fear, and in accordance with her mother’s advice regarding her past imprudence, she withheld her confession about her liaison with Alec to her new suitor, Angel. So far, so good. Yet, once they are married, Tess discloses her secret to Angel, trusting he would understand and forgive it, considering that he had been the first to reveal to her that he had been through a misadventure of the kind before meeting her in the fields. Then her troubles begin again. Poor Tess! her honesty proved her downfall! This is a story wherein temptation both corrupts as well as redeems the souls of simple people: her parents’ greed led to Tess's exposure to vice; Tess’s charms inflamed Alec’s desire; her candour and diligence captivated Angel’s heart; her beauty once more roused Alec, undoing his recent conversion to Christianity, and on learning what Tess had concealed from him four years ago, he is bent on making amends; and Tess, in despite of her animosity towards Alec, after her separation from her husband, could not help accepting the culprit back in order to rescue her family from the ruin brought about by her own faults as well as her father’s mundane pretensions. In the end, Tess avenges her returned husband Angel’s honour by thrusting a knife into the heart of her false saviour—and through this act she definitely substantiated the notion that she was a descendant of the ancient, though decayed and savage, D’Urbervilles, to the spreading of which fact, in the hopes of receiving assistance from antiquarians, for the sake of the restorarion of said lineage, her father directed his efforts until he died, instead of working like everyone else in the country. At any rate, his belief turned out to be correct, however absurd his expectations on that account. A tragic tale, no doubt, yet the manner in which Hardy tells it may soothe you as though a leaf that is swayed by a gentle breeze.

Love the matt finish of the cover and the quality of the paper that has been used for the pages. Soft cover.