Tess of the D'Urbervilles - On Playaway Author:Thomas Hardy Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads just press play! — "Tess of the D'Urbervilles tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, forced by... more » her family's poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles. Violated by the son, Alec, her hopes of rebuilding her life with the gentle and bookish Angel Clare founder when he learns of her past. Socially critical and emotionally complex, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is Hardy's masterpiece.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset in 1840, he set much of his work in the imaginary county of Wessex. He originally trained as an architect at King's College London. He married Emma Gifford in 1874, and although she died in 1912, and he later remarried, much of his later poetry is preoccupied with her. Hardy himself died of pleurisy in 1928.
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