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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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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
This was a slow-moving novel about "a pure woman", Thomas Hardy's (1840-1928) original subtitle for "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". While Tess did a lot during her short life, there was a lot of detailed description of the land, more than action, which I found a little tedious. It was easy to like Tess, a simple English country girl; but not so easy to like the men in the novel. They seemed cruel to their women. Altogether a good novel, and perhaps Hardy's best known, it is worth reading, but prepa
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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
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