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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ...
Jun 05, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: 1001-books, classics, vic-lit, read-in-2020
UPDATE *** I reread this in January 2020, and loved it even more. I think I picked up on the details more this time.

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Thomas Hardy writes beautiful, clever, vivid sentences that describe scenery so well that I feel I have traveled to the place. He writes characters who are rich and real, completely flawed and often completely wronged. It is obvious to me that he became friends with his characters. That they shared tea, conversed was and got to know each other well. In this book, he even gave ...more
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Laura
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England. ...more
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Lisa
Dec 30, 2011 rated it it was amazing
I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end and am sorry it took me 46 years to get around to reading it. Reminds me a bit of Romeo and Juliet in that Tess and Angel seem to be somewhat star-crossed lovers. The larger problem was that Angel could not see the error of his ways until it was too late. My heart broke for Tess. Yes, I did just say that. I am sad for her in a very real way. Thomas Hardy made Tess and Angel both very real; it was easy to feel empathy, anger, hope, fear, etc. for ...more
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