# Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by [Thomas Hardy](https://localbooks.app/authors/thomas-hardy)

- Genres: [Ficción literaria](https://localbooks.app/genres/literary-fiction/literary-fiction)
- Set in: [Marlott, Marnhull, Inglaterra, Reino Unido](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/england/marnhull/marlott) (fictional); [Bere Regis, Inglaterra, Reino Unido](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/england/bere-regis); [Stonehenge, Amesbury, Inglaterra, Reino Unido](https://localbooks.app/places/gb/england/amesbury/stonehenge)
- Audience: Adult
- Published: 1891
- Pages: 457

## Description

When a parson tells her father that the family descends from the noble d'Urbervilles, Tess Durbeyfield is sent to claim kinship with a rich household, and meets the man who will ruin her. Working the dairies and turnip fields of Hardy's Wessex, she tries to start again with an idealistic clergyman's son.

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