Tess Of The D Urbervilles
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Tess Of The D Urbervilles
Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy dUrbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec dUrberville and secretly bears a Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy dUrbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec dUrberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects heron their wedding nightafter learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. The novel is set in impoverished rural England, Thomas Hardys fictional Wessex, during the Long Depression of the 1870s. Tess is the oldest child of John and Joan Durbeyfield, uneducated peasants however, John is given the impression by Parson Tringham that he may have noble blood, since Durbeyfield is a corruption of DUrberville, the surname of a noble Norman family, then extinct. The news immediately goes to Johns head... Tess has been seen as a personification of nature and her association with animals throughout the novel emphasizes this idea. Tesss misfortunes begin when she falls a while driving Prince to market, and causes the horses death at Trantridge, she becomes a poultry-keeper she and Angel fall in love amid cows in the fertile Froom valley and on the road to Flintcombe-Ashe, she kills some wounded pheasants to end their suffering. However, Tess emerges as a powerful character not because of this symbolism but because Hardys feelings for her were strong, perhaps stronger than for any of his other invented personages.
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Title | Tess Of The D Urbervilles |
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Author | Thomas Hardy |
ISBN-13 | 9780140431353 |
ISBN-10 | 0140431353 |
Publisher | Faber And Faber Penguin India |
Language | English |
Edition | NA |
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Height | 176 mm |
Width | 110 mm |
Thickness | 21 mm |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 0 |