Sunday, January 11, 2026

Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1892; 2022)

Thomas Hardy.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior.
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2022.

Book Information : Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; GoodReads.com; Amazon.com.

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Some Other Recent Editions of Tess of the d'Urbervilles :
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Second Edition. Edited by Phillip Mallett and Jane Thomas. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    (A previous Norton Critical Edition edited by Scott Elledge, last published in its third edition in 1990, also exists [Amazon.com].)
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell. Introduction by Penny Boumelha. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Edited by Tim Dolin. Introduction by Margaret Randolph Higonnet. Penguin Classics. London and New York: Penguin Books, 1998, updated 2003.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor : Karen Swallow Prior
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Comments :
  • Karen Swallow Prior's edition is very thorough in identifying references to Classical, Biblical, and Contemporary (19th century) literature; the "Reflection Questions" after each major section ("Phases" in Hardy's terminology) are also helpful. Readers interested in more detailed literary analysis should also consider the Norton Critical Editions versions.

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