# Penguin Readers Level 6: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (ELT Graded Reader)

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- Authors: [Thomas Hardy](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-hardy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2022-04-07

## Description

With carefully adapted text , new illustrations , language practise activities and additional online resources , the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content . Titles include popular classics , exciting contemporary fiction , and thought-provoking non-fiction . Tess of the D'Urbervilles, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the d'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it will make their lives better. They send their eldest daughter, Tess, to introduce herself to some " relatives". There, Tess meets Alec d'Urberville, who immediately notices her beauty. The terrible event that follows changes her life forever.

## Editions

### Penguin Readers Level 6: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (ELT Graded Reader)

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-259-0
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2022-04-07
- Language: en_GB

### Penguin Readers Level 6: Tess of the D'Urbervilles (ELT Graded Reader)

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4154-264-4
- Published: 2022-04-07
- Language: en_GB