托马斯·哈代(1840—1928)是19世纪末英国杰出的批判现实主义作家。《德伯家的苔丝》(Tess of the D’Urbervilles)(1891)是他最优秀的小说之一,作品以出身贫苦的少女苔丝悲惨而短暂的一生遭遇为主要情节,描述了这位纯洁姑娘的不幸命运。小说中苔丝诗意的美丽和作家赋予其的理想化色彩让广大读者为其悲情的结局扼腕叹息。苔丝的悲剧命运是由多方面 Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was a prominent British Critical Criticalist writer at the end of the 19th century. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) was one of his finest novels, and depicted the tragic and transient life experience of a poor girl, Tess, Pure girl’s unlucky destiny. The beauty of the poetry of Tess in the novel and the idealistic color given to it by the writer allow readers to sigh for the end of their tragedies. Tess’s tragedy consists of many aspects