“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” contains a simplified edition of the book with the same title by the famous author Thomas Hardy. Tess, the humble daughter of a simple man, experiences the most dreadful things which can ever happen to a woman. Her struggles with the rotten world which encircles her turn out to be vain. And the wheel of fortune sweeps over her crumbles of hope and leaves her with nothing to hold on to survive... Dorlion Readers (Stage 3) Dorlion Readers is a series of retold and simplified stories which are classifed into 4 stages, each stage consists of 10 story books, in accordance with their degrees of difficulty. The selected stories are chosen among the world-wide known fairy tales, mythological narratives and short stories of famous authors.