Tess of the D’Urbervilles in Reading with Style

Jun 20, 2013 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nineteenth-century, 5-star-reads, author-hardy-thomas, 1001-books, library

It is a season of firsts, and this is my first Hardy. I wonder that I left him neglected so long. As has been observed by more astute readers than I, Hardy incorporates the natural world into his writing.

The gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day's close, though the degree of their shade may be the same. In the twilight of the morning, light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which

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Mar 08, 2010 Paula rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: read_in_2010, victorians

It took me about a year to get through this book, and the final impetus to finish it was that it become a group read for Victorians. I understand that Hardy is viewed as a magnificent author with wondrous depictions of rural settings, but the characters in this book drove me bonkers. Tess... grow up. Angel... get over yourself. Alec... go take a cold shower. I know books are about so much more than the characters, but when there isn't a character to even remotely identify with, a book can be slo ...more

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May 05, 2009 Celeste rated it it was amazing

THis was one of my favorite book in college. I saw the movie and couldn't wait to read the book. I loved it. I probably need to read it again. ...more

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Nov 03, 2007 Ruth rated it it was ok

Shelves: classics

I felt angry with angel for the way he treated Tess. I hated what happened to Tess at the end. It seems that all the men in this novel trangressess, but are not punished. Where the woman who was victimized pays the ultimate price.

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