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Smk Books Tess of the d by Thomas Hardy
The novel is set in impoverished rural Wessex during the Long Depression. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield uneducated rural peasants. One day Parson Tringham informs John that he has noble blood. Tringham an amateur genealogist has discovered that Durbeyfield is a corruption of DUrberville the surname of a noble Norman family.show more