The title character in this faithful retelling of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel suffers (and suffers, and then suffers some more) for her beauty, which at times can make an otherwise-sumptuous production ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Little Women and Howards End producer Playground Entertainment is moving into Sherlock Holmes’ territory, developing an adaptation of Kim Newman’s novel Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the ...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles or Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented, was one of the first books that introduced me to literature at the tender age of 14. A life long reader, I ...

This essay was due 25 years ago. The teacher who assigned it could be dead. I was in 10 th grade when I was assigned a 10-page term paper on Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles for English class.

David Nicholls (Starter For Ten, Much Ado About Nothing) has penned a new four-part adaptation of Thomas Hardy's tragic and well-loved novel, Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, for transmission in autumn 2008 ...

It's more than 30 years since I read 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy. Re-reading it now, what stayed? Tess herself, mainly. She sweats, she blushes, she bleeds. All that red and white. The ...

The remains of the real-life Tess of the d’Urbervilles have been found beneath a prison by archaeologists, it has been claimed. Martha Brown died in August 1856, in a public hanging that was witnessed ...

If one thing about Tess of the d'Urbervilles sticks with me it is the haunting, dare I say menacing, d'Urberville gaze. A race lost to time, the d'Urberville gaze manages to live on, in the family's ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, which challenged Victorian morality and made Hardy's fortune when published in the 1890s. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

Now, I'm not some crazy feminist who constantly preaches about the double standards of society, but when I watch a film such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles it boils my blood! Men can be such jerks! Of ...