Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Fully annotated. Includes separate TOC pointing to specific episodes or passages, Hardy’s hand-drawn Wessex map, 7 Hardy poems, selections from Millgate’s Hardy biography that draw parallels to Hardy’s life, excerpts from Grindle and Gatrell’s intro to the 1983 edition that discuss Hardy’s revision process in both manuscripts and early printed editions of the novel. Criticism features three contemporary reviews of the novel not printed in the earlier Norton editions, including the first feminist review of Tess of the D’Urbervilles.