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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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midnightfaerie
Oct 10, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy was a fantastic read. Exquisite writing and impeccable attention to detail had me at the edge of my seat, anxious to turn the page. His panoramic scale in view when describing the scenery is like nothing I've ever read. He illustrates the whole picture then slowly, as if you were walking closer to the scene, he defines the rest, until he gets to the main focus of what he's looking at in the story. The book is about a young woman named Tess who, through n ...more
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Shirley (stampartiste)
Jul 18, 2020 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Perhaps if I had read this book at any other time (not the depressing, chaotic year that 2020 has turned out to be), I would have enjoyed this story more. I appreciated the fact that Thomas Hardy presented the beautifully tragic Tess in the light that he did. Tess, with her indomitable spirit and determined self-reliance, was a genuine hero. But the constant buffeting of Tess's life for 400 pages was almost more than I could bear. About 300 pages in, I was ready for this story to wrap up. In Kur ...more
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Zuzana
Jan 08, 2012 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Extremely depressive read.
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