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Analysis of Tess of the D’Urbervilles Tess of the D’Urbervilles told us how the heroine Tess struggled to her unfortunate fate. It was one of Thomas Hardy’s famous works, and received wide attention in the world. However, when the book was first published in 1891, Hardy’s moral standards was strongly questioned by the Victorian era’s people, they thought the book was a blasphemy of this period’s literature and also morality, some of the chapters and sections were deleted reluctantly. After I read this masterpiece, I learned a lot both from the article’s literature values, translation skills and the spirit of dare to fight with one’s own unfair fate. And I would like to share some of my thoughts about the book from the book itself and the translation aspects. First Part: An introduction to Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy’s most famous work. Thomas Hardy was burn in 1840 in Dorset shire in the south west of England and it was adjacent to the Dorset shire desert; the hostile environment there formed the most common settings in Hardy’s works. Hardy was from a rural declining aristocracy, his family background made him see the lower people’s hard life and he depicted their life vividly in his novels. He was an architect at first, when people looked at Hardy’s novel; they would find its structure was like his architect works. It was his fourth novel Far From the Madding Crowd that made Hardy became famous in the literature field. Hardy had delivered nearly 20 full-length novels, and among these The Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure were very successful works. But the most successful work was Tess of the D’Urbervilles, when this book was first published in 1891; Hardy also named the book a subhead----the Story of a Pure Woman, but many moralists criticized this novel, they thought Tess had already lost her virgin, after her child died on a cold rainy night, the priest refused to hold Christian baptism for her poor died child, she claimed th