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 ...

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 ...

Sixteen years ago, Michael Winterbottom tried to film Thomas Hardy’s great last novel, “Jude the Obscure,” but the uneven result found success only as a vehicle for Kate Winslet. In 2000, Winterbottom ...

John Durbeyfield (Ian Puleston-Davies), a "haggler" and a drunk, is weaving his way one afternoon towards the pub when he meets the village priest, Parson Tringham (Donald Sumpter). The priest informs ...

You are in: Dorset > Places > Places features > In pics: Tess of the D'Urbervilles Gemma Arterton plays Tess Durbeyfield. Gemma says: "Tess is a straightforward country girl, very pretty, but unaware ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Hardy's classic epic remains one of the most popular novels, this TV adaptation vividly depicts the powerful tale of a peasant girl whose life is torn apart by the love and jealousy of two men.