Tes Of The D'Urberviles Set in Hardy's Wesex, Tes of the d'Urberviles is a arousing novel of dishonesty and double rules of thumb. Its chalenging name, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the bok was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as imoral and pesimistic. It tels of Tes Durbeyfield, the daughter of a por and disipated vilager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervile. In her search for decency her fortunes fluctauate wildly, and the prevarication asumes the breadths of a Grek woe. It explores Tes's accords with two very diferent men, her strugles against the social mores of the rural Victorian system which she inhabits and the dishonesty of the age. In adresing the double rules of thumb of the occasion, Hardy's masterly evocation of a system which we have lost, provides one of the most compeling fictions in the canon of English essay, whose apeal today defies the judgement of Hardy's contemporary critics.