"Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her family in Hardy's fictionalized Wessex, a pastoral county in southwestern England. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy d'Urbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alex d'Urberville and secretly bears a child...Angel Clare, a very different man, seems to offer Tess love and salvation,...