《德伯家的苔丝》一书(以下简称《苔丝》),是哈代最重要的代表作之一。小说中的故事题材本身在中外文学作品中已是屡见不鲜,正如恩格斯所言是关于“无产阶级姑娘被资产阶级男人勾引这样一个老而又老的故事”(见《致玛·哈克奈斯》)。但就在这平凡而古老的题材中寓于极大的不平凡,无论其内容上还是艺术上都容纳了诸多的精彩与辉煌。因此,《苔丝》不仅在本国,在世界范围内都长久受到广大读者的喜爱,且为专业人士所瞩目, Tess of the Dübe Family (hereinafter referred to as Tess) is one of Hardin’s most important masterpieces. The stories in the novels themselves are not uncommon in Chinese and foreign literary works, just as Engels said about “the old and old story of a proletarian girl being seduced by a bourgeois man” (see Matthew Hackney Sri Lanka "). However, in this ordinary and ancient theme lies in a great extraordinary, both content and art are to accommodate a lot of wonderful and brilliant. Therefore, Tess has long been loved by readers, not only in his home country but also in the world,