I'm pretty sure I read this back when I was living in London and had hour-long commutes, which gave me time for reading long books. The only thing I remembered was that Tess had some hardships and spent time one winter digging "Swedes" (Swedish turnips; actually, rutabaga) out of the frozen ground. ...
2014: ...What? (2 stars)2016: I remember the first time I finished this book, in bed in my college dorm room with my mouth hanging open from the moment Tess declared "I have killed him!" A second reading really was necessary to process.I think I care more for Tess than I usually care about character...
SpolersSometimes a book out of my past comes singing to me, and I know that the time to reread it is now, although I invariably don't know why. That does not happen very often and I have always known that I will reread Tess. I first read Tess twenty years ago and it began a love affair for me with...
** spoiler alert ** Spoilers be nigh. I read this in high school (sort of), which may explain why I hated it so passionately. I think the only thing I ever read in school that I didn't hate with a passion was Romeo and Juliet (and I was apparently very lucky about that – I understand school usually...
The chance discovery by a young peasant woman that she is a descendant of the noble family of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Thomas Hardy's impassioned story tells of hope...
Ok. I'm really disappointed!I've been planning to read Tess of the d'Urbervilles for so long, and depending on the large number of its positive reviews, I expected it to be one of my all time favorites. To be honest, I loved the first 100 pages of the novel and I really enjoyed them, but then I bega...
“I felt a little like a man reading a very grim book. A Thomas Hardy novel, say. You know how it’s going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It’s like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curve...
Hardy was such a "modern man".I found Tess to be a lovely hero. She is smart, honest, skillful, hardworking, humble and proud. She is seen as the best product of her unproductive parents. Her downward projectory begins when the parson says,"Good night, Sir John." Jack Durbeyfield's eyes and his wife...
Gee, what a bleak, bleak, bleak read. Did I mention the book was bleak? I had 14 hours to kill between trains and airports on the way back from Christmas and this was the book I picked. Unfortunately. Or maybe fortunately as otherwise I probably would not have finished it. Having been through th...
Poor pretty Tess is a confounding heroine. She has many admirable qualities. She is loyal, hardworking and dutiful. She is also destined to attract the wrong type of fellow. Seemingly unaware of her allure she reluctantly finds herself in heaps of trouble because of it. She is acutely sensitive to t...
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