id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-314 Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Wikipedia .html text/html 5743 474 77 Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. Though now considered a major 19th-century English novel, even Hardy's fictional masterpiece,[2] Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England. 2008: A four-hour BBC adaptation, written by David Nicholls, aired in the United Kingdom in September and October 2008 (in four parts),[29] and in the United States on the PBS series Masterpiece Classic in January 2009 (in two parts).[30] The cast included Gemma Arterton (Tess), Hans Matheson (Alec), Eddie Redmayne (Angel), Ruth Jones (Joan), Anna Massey (Mrs d'Urberville), and Kenneth Cranham (Reverend James Clare).[31][32] ^ "Review: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: a Pure Woman Faithfully Presented by Thomas Hardy". ^ Tess of the D'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy's classic novel for BBC One. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-314.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-314.txt