| Item Description: | First published in Two volumes in 1891, is generally regarded as Hardy's masterpiece, and certainly it is his most ambitious tragic novel. This is a story of innocence and sophistication, of men and nature, of history and its relations to the present, concentrated on the fate of a simple country girl whose parents chance discovery of their descent from a once noble line sends her to seek the assistance of a degenerate relative to whom she surrenders before parting from him in disgust |
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