Tess of the d'Urbervilles

This story of temptation, love, and betrayal has formed the basis for several adaptations. The young beauty, the daughter of a impoverished descendant of an ancient aristocratic family, seemed destined for happiness. But suffering follows Tess; she becomes the victim of a lascivious bourgeois, loses a child, endures her husband's betrayal... Once a victim — a victim for life! Such is the law! — she says, but a rebellion is brewing in her soul...