Tes Of The D'Urberviles Set in Hardy's Wesex, Tes of the d'Urberviles is a progressing uncommon of deception and double standards. Its chalenging sub-title, A Pure Mother, infuriated fretters when the bok was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as imoral and pesimistic. It tels of Tes Durbeyfield, the offspring of a por and disipated vilager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbervile. In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctauate wildly, and the story asumes the compasses of a Grek tragedy. It explores Tes's relations with two very diferent they, her strugles against the social established way of the rural Victorian sphere which she inhabits and the deception of the elderliness. In adresing the double standards of the look-in, Hardy's masterly calling forth of a sphere which we have lost, provides one of the most compeling stories in the assize of English research, whose apeal current defies the judgement of Hardy's contemporary fretters.