Tess Of The D’urbervilles

The text is that of the Wessex Edition of 1912, universally acknowledged as definitive. It has been collated with the text of the 1895 edition. Study of the novel is illuminated by a special selection of those of Hardy’s poems that bear on Tess and by a rich collection of excerpts from Hardy’s two-volume autobiography. “Composition and Publication” traces in useful detail the course of the novel from manuscript through publication. “Contemporary Critical Reception” collects important reviews. The range of critical approaches represented in the Norton Critical Edition is suggested by the inclusion of essays by Lionel Johnson, D.H. Lawrence, Arnold Kettle, and John Holloway. Among other important critical voices are those of Virginia Woolf, Donald Davidson, Lord David Cecil, Albert J. Guerard, Evelyn Hardy, and Ian Gregor.