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One of literature's greatest and most tragic heroines. A beautiful and hearty farm girl, Tess Durbeyfield is about to have her life tragically changed by forces outside her control: lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. This controversial Victorian tale has come to be recognized as a triumph of literary art. “What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace—I don’t know which.”—D. H. Lawrence “The greatest tragic writer among English novelists.”—Virginia Woolf