Beautiful new edition with cover from David DeanFaber Childrens Classics have accessible font sizes for easier reading. Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor villager, learns she may be descendant from the rich dUrberville family. She fails to claim kinship and is taken advantage of by the libertine Alec dUrberville. She then meets the son of a local reverend, Angel Clare, who she begins to fall in love with, but tragedy follows Tess as she continues to run from her past. Will she get her chance at love or will her past doom her future?