Description

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Thomas Hardy’s intense novel about one beautiful young woman – a story of seduction, betrayal and tragedy. This edition comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich ‘relatives’, the D’Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret…

This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.

Publisher Review

Thomas Hardy's thrilling story of seduction, murder, cruelty and betrayal * The Times * Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination... Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting -- Irving Howe Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles has a lush sensuality about the heat of summer and the heat of lust which makes the gorgeousness of Hardy's heroine and his country of Wessex both seems utterly desirable as the tale of tragic fate unfolds * The Times * Hardy never used his "country" and his Greek ambitions to better effect -- Melvyn Bragg Tess's beauty and the effect that it has on others gave me a sense of the destructive power of sex -- Rufus Wainwright There's something about Hardy especially that appeals to the melancholic girl -- Belle de Jour