Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Name: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
ISBN: 9781791748166

by Thomas Hardy · first published 1707

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An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh

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newjobseeker · Jan 5, 2020 · Recommends

…impossible for me to get into any of the Russians). I tend towards American or English classics, I suggest one of my all time favourites, it's a short one "My Antonia" by Willa Cather. I'm currently reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy and enjoying it very much.
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zwieback · Dec 7, 2023 · Recommends

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin, fantastic writing, touching and insightful "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy. I'm huge Hardy fan but hadn't read his masterpiece until this year
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bikenaga · Aug 13, 2024 · Recommends

…major novels I haven't read. "Far From the Madding Crowd" and "Return of the Native" are okay, but the two that really are magnificent are: "Jude the Obscure" - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/153 "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/110 You can sense his fury at the society he was depicting. You might not want to read either of these, particularly "Tess", if you're prone to depression. Frederick…
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shawndumas · Dec 21, 2010 · Mentions

12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
klenwell · Jul 22, 2018 · Mentions

…Drunk History for all the reasons she articulated. I've never watched the British version. She has persuaded me not to waste my time. Her appreciation of Drunk History reminds me of a line from Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles: And it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity. It's a quality Nussbaum seems especially atuned to in her reviews.…
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DFHippie · Feb 23, 2021 · Mentions

That's an event in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles": a cow at a dairy has eaten some wild garlic and the entire batch of milk is ruined. Everyone has to go out and walk the fields in a line to root out any garlic they come across. Full disclosure: I…
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phuff · Jan 7, 2011 · Mentions

…for them. That, and having the ebooks all on the kindle is nice. I read the wizard of oz to my son over the last few weeks, and it was nice to pop out of his room at bedtime and switch over to reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. For novels particularly, the kindle is super nice, and I think it'd be nice to do most of my for-fun reading there. For reference stuff I'm still not sure if it will work because the "note" making…
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