Tess of the d'Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy, Tricia Hedge (Editor), Jennifer Bassett (Series Editor)




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Book Description
A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. ItContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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The CLASSIC review
Comments ( 0) Add to My Stories There is something disturbing about the experience of watching the lavish new BBC1 dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D'Urbervilles. However hazy one's notion of the plot, it is hard to shake off a sense of pi ... (read full critics)
dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010
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This is Hardy at his best. One of the most exciting of his novels.
One thing Hardy wants to put over - and he does so very strongly - is that one's life can be so altered by what appear to be the 'accidents' of life. For example: The letter pushed under the door by Tess but not found by Clare ... (continue)
GraJon said on Jul 25, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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What a book! It's full of fools and the characters are mad:
Tess's mother is a superficial woman; Tess is a stupid, innocent killer; Angel Clare (WTF! Is it a name? Tsk.) is a crazy psychopath; Alec D'Urbevill is a sick pervert; and so on...Foolish - all of 'em.
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Blackrystal said on May 13, 2008 | Add your feedback
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I feel pity about the life of Tess, because her life is totally ruined by a bad man from an ancient noble family.
It is the encourage from her mother to tell her to visit the D'urberville family, especially one of the member called Alec. And her beauty and innocent, which has seduced Alec, rui ... (continue)
Kittyy Yuen-3A.38 said on May 10, 2008 | Add your feedback
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Haunting
I knew from the start of the contents this book contained, as an English student it's hard for my teachers to not comment as we're currently studying Victorian Literature. Nevertheless, despite knowing how it might end, I was still addicted and wanted to know what happened next. Of course, some may ... (continue)
F Sally said on Feb 15, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Simon Hargreaves said on Sep 9, 2011 | Add your feedback
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I decided it was time to read this book as last week my flatmate described it as the "most depressing book I've ever read". Now having finished it I can't say the same (Well of Loneliness still wins that award for me) but I did enjoy. The only problem I had with it was Tess herself. She seemed not t ... (continue)
Robot-mel said on Jan 15, 2011 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 144 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0194230945
- ISBN-13: 9780194230940
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Oct 18, 2000
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, School & Library Binding, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
In the years after the 1891 publication of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy acknowledged that he had written the book 'with too much feeling to recall it with pleasure'. If writing the book was an affecting experience, reading it proves equall ... (read full critics)