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Synopsis
Tess of the D'Urbervilles tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, forced by her family's poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles. Violated by the son, Alec, her hopes of rebuilding her life with the gentle and bookish Angel Clare founder when he learns of her past. Socially critical and emotionally complex, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is Hardy's masterpiece. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Born in Dorset in 1840, he set much of his work in the imaginary county of Wessex. He originally trained as an architect at King's College London. He married Emma Gifford in 1874, and although she died in 1912, and he later remarried, much of his later poetry is preoccupied with her. Hardy himself died of pleurisy in 1928. Anna Bentinck trained at The Arts Educational School and has made over 800 broadcasts for BBC Radio. Animation voices include the series 64 Zoo Lane, and on TV she has played Mary Dickens in Charles Dickens and Mary Rutherford in the Marie Curie series. Her many audiobooks range from Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman and A Little Death by Laura Wilson to Queen Victoria by Evelyn Anthony.Book Details
Published
June 1, 2008
Publisher
Naxos Audiobooks Ltd
Format
Audio - Unabridged
ISBN
9781605149912