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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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A me il bel romanzone vittoriano piace quasi a prescindere; mi piace lo stile, l'ambientazione, l'atmosfera, il modo di scrivere, mi piacciono i baffoni, le crinoline, i cappelli a cilindro e il tè delle cinque. Mi piace quel tratto tipicamente inglese che è l'ironia, e che qui manca del tutto. Per ... (continue)
r. said on Feb 5, 2011 | 3 feedbacks
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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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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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beatrice. said on Dec 8, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 528 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0140620206
- ISBN-13: 9780140620207
- Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass
- Pub date: Jan 25, 2007
- Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 258 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)