- Description
- A ne'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter's beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy's 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
- Publication date
- 1893.
- Call number
- 486768
- Provenance
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Valentine, September 1987.
- Dimensions
- 19 cm
- Associated people
- Valentine, Arthur,
- Valentine, Arthur,
- Associated organization
- Harper & Brothers,