Tess of D'Urbervilles Author:Thomas Hardy Hailed as Thomas Hardy's greatest novel. It tells the tragic and beautiful story of a wman who was forced to sin by a man she hated, and cast out by the man she loved. Truly a masterpiece for all time , it is filled with Hardy's startling portrayals of the moral villainy of men and women and his magnificent understand... more »ing of human needs.« less