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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

Thomas Hardy

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The main portion of the following story appeared—with slight modifications—in the _Graphic_ newspaper; other chapters, more especially addressed to adult readers, in the _Fortnightly Review_ and the _National Observer_, as episodic sketches. My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as origi…

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  • AuthorThomas Hardy
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #110
  • Length147,679 words · 9h 51m of reading
  • Chapters62
  • DictionaryNot yet generated
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

62 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Thomas Hardy
  2. 02Explanatory Note to the First Edition
  3. 03The Maiden
  4. 04II
  5. 05III
  6. 06IV
  7. 07VI
  8. 08VII
  9. 09VIII
  10. 10IX
  11. 11XI
  12. 12XII
  13. 13XIII
  14. 14XIV
  15. 15XV
  16. 16XVI
  17. 17XVII
  18. 18XVIII
  19. 19XIX
  20. 20XX
  21. 21XXI
  22. 22XXII
  23. 23XXIII
  24. 24XXIV
  25. 25XXV
  26. 26XXVI
  27. 27XXVII
  28. 28XXVIII
  29. 29XXIX
  30. 30XXX
  31. 31XXXI
  32. 32J. Durbeyfield
  33. 33XXXII
  34. 34XXXIII
  35. 35XXXIV
  36. 36XXXV
  37. 37XXXVI
  38. 38XXXVII
  39. 39XXXVIII
  40. 40XXXIX
  41. 41XL
  42. 42XLI
  43. 43XLII
  44. 44XLIII
  45. 45XLIV
  46. 46XLV
  47. 47XLVI
  48. 48XLVII
  49. 49XLVIII
  50. 50XLIX
  51. 51LI
  52. 52LII
  53. 53OSTIUM SEPULCHRI ANTIQUAE FAMILIAE D’URBERVILLE
  54. 54From Two Well-Wishers
  55. 55LIII
  56. 56J. Durbeyfield
  57. 57LIV
  58. 58LV
  59. 59LVI
  60. 60LVII
  61. 61LVIII
  62. 62LIX

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