TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas Hardy
TI  - Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
SN  - 9780140620207
U1  - English HAR 
N2  - Into his story of a simple but beautiful country girl's seduction by another man which causes her husband to leave her on their wedding night and thereby precipitates a course of events that ends in murder, Hardy wove a luminous tenderness and longing. "I have never been able to put on paper all that she is, or was to me" he said.

In defying convention and making a milkmaid the subject of tragedy, Hardy gave rein to his feeling for landscape and rural life - its harshness, seasonal rhythms and reminders of death and resurrection - and endows them with a brooding symbolism and visionary beauty
ER  -