Coming to PBS in January 2009a a MasterpieceTM Classic production of ThomasHardyas Tess of the DaUrbervillesTess Durbeyfield knows what it is to workhard and ex... » 

Coming to PBS in January 2009a a MasterpieceTM Classic production of ThomasHardyas Tess of the DaUrbervillesTess Durbeyfield knows what it is to workhard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by hermother and grandmother. When her neaerdowell father learns that his family isthe last of a long noble line the daUrbervilles he sends Tess on a journey tomeet her supposed kina a journey that will see her victimized by lust povertyand hypocrisy. With its sensitive depiction of one of literatureas mostadmirable and tragic heroines and its powerful criticism of social conventionTess of the DaUrbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of ThomasHardyas novels. «