TESS OF D'URBERVILLES（ISBN=9780679405863）

　　Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy’s early work, Tess of the D’Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, has achieved classic stature.

　　Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840. By his death in 1928, he had written numerous novels, short stories and poems including Under the Greenwood Tree; Far From the Madding Crowd; The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Woodlanders and Jude the Obscure, his final novel, all of which have been adapted to TV and film.