This book makes me angry, but since I have to credit that anger with the story sticking with me, and for helping me get a 5 on my AP English exam, I give it a few more points. Tess has a horrible life and her one moment of happiness is dashed by the dreaded double-standard.
Read this as a young woman, the story stays with you, so sad..“Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have b...
As Tess leaves the new Amazon site.....another, if small, sadness.http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/tess-of-the-durbervilles-thomas-hardy/
I've always loved Hardy as a poet, and so it's odd that I never tried him as a novelist before this. His writing to me is funny and fascinating. He has a great way of putting things, and every paragraph of every page holds my interest. I'm bowled over by how sexist the society is, of course, and ...
I love this novel, but it is harsh. Tess D’Urberville, in every sense the “pure woman” Hardy calls her, becomes repeatedly victimized by circumstance. Tess’s actions exceed the moral norms of her society. The loss of their family’s horse, Tess’s reluctant visit to the D’Urbervilles of Trantridge, he...
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