Tess of the d’Urbervilles
By Thomas Hardy
69 chapters
Said to be Thomas Hardy’s fictional masterpiece and is considered an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. Tess Durbeyfield is the oldest child of uneducated peasants who are given the impression that they may have noble blood, as their surname is a corruption of that of an extinct Norman family. When Tess participates in the village May Dance, she meets Angel, who stops to join the dance but notices Tess too late to dance with her. That night, Tess’s father gets too drunk to drive to the market, so she undertakes the journey herself. However, she falls asleep at the reins, and the following years.
Said to be Thomas Hardy’s fictional masterpiece and is considered an important nineteenth century novel. It explores themes of love, sex, class and morality in an aching love story. Tess Durbeyfield is the oldest child of uneducated peasants who are given the impression that they may have noble blood, as their surname is a corruption of that of an extinct Norman family. When Tess participates in the village May Dance, she meets Angel, who stops to join the dance but notices Tess too late to dance with her. That night, Tess’s father gets too drunk to drive to the market, so she undertakes the journey herself. However, she falls asleep at the reins, and the following years.