Tess of the d'Urbervilles
British novelist, 1840–1928.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is an 1891 novel by Thomas Hardy.
On 5 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1891
- Length
- 592 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Love story, Rural life, Class and society
Is Tess of the d'Urbervilles worth reading?
5 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph) and The Big Read top 100 (BBC).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (Amazon.co.uk, 2014) | Listed | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 17 | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 80 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 51 | See the list |
| The Big Read top 100 (BBC, 2003) | No. 26 | See the list |
Best edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2003), 592 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2003)
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN
- 9780141439594
How critics and readers rate Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Readers rate it most highly: it earned 49% of the points available on readers' and booksellers' lists, against 28% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Tess of the d'Urbervilles
If you liked Tess of the d'Urbervilles, try Jude the Obscure, Middlemarch or The Great Gatsby.
