THOMAS HARDY: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

‘‘‘Justice’ was done and the President of the Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess,’’ remarks Thomas Hardy at the end of the this tragic tale of an innocent young woman after she is hanged for murdering her seducer Alec D’Urbervilles. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, sub-titled ‘A Pure woman’, recounts the trials and travails of poor Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a mere haggler who fancies himself as ‘Sir John’ and who leaves the bringing up his brood of half a dozen children to his foolish wife and his eldest daughter. A moving tale, the novel ends in tragedy, as all Hardy’s novels do with man bathing a hostile providence and failing spectacularly. This critical study, originally prepared by Dr. Raghukul Tilak, has been revised, edited and brought upto-date by prof. Shakti Batra.

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