Tess of the d'Urbervilles

''She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess''s countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: "Tess- say it is not true! No, it is not true!"''Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family''s fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d''Urbervilles. But Alec d''Urberville is a rich wastrel who sed...