Tess of the D´UrbervillesTess of the D´Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy is a novel about a young girl from a poor family whose life changes because someone tells her family that she belongs to a noble family. But is this a bad or a good change? This story is written in the third person point of view. John Durbeyfield is walking down the street at night and suddenly a historian visiting the town stops and tells him that his last name is actually d'Urberville and that he comes from a noble family. Sir John hurries and tells his family the news. He is a very poor man. So he told his young daughter, Tess, to go find work in the "family" town, but Tess's mother never warned her about the wickedness of men. There, Tess meets a man, Alec d'Urberville, and soon after. he manages to seduce her and he forces her to do something she didn't want. She immediately leaves this town and discovers shortly after that she is pregnant but her baby, shortly after birth, dies. This makes her very angry towards men. When she leaves to look for work in another city, she meets a very charming man, Angel Clare, and very quickly, they fall in love and get married, but when Tess reveals her dark secret to him. he is not able to forgive her after also doing wrong by having relations with a woman he did not love and knowing that it was not Tess's fault. He then leaves her. While Angel is gone, Alec begins to seduce Tess again and she falls in love with him again. When Angel realized he was wrong, it was too late. Tess then realizes that she really loves Angel. Alec was still the evil man she met and was forced to kill him. Angel and Tess are ultimately very happy, but only for two days because Tess is put in prison and killed. Alec ends up marrying Tess's sister, Liza-Lu, as Tess wanted when she knew she was going to be killed. This story takes place in the English countryside first in a small village called Marlott, a poor place in a small cottage where she and her family live, then in several other slightly more sophisticated towns.