A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Thomas Hardy’s intense novel about one beautiful young woman – a story of seduction, betrayal and tragedy. This edition comes with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich ‘relatives’, the D’Urbervilles. Her encounter with her manipulative cousin, Alec, leads her onto a path that is beset with suffering and betrayal. When she falls in love with another man, Angel Clare, Tess sees a potential escape from her past, but only if she can tell him her shameful secret… This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR’S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production.
