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Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Bantam Classics) Mass Market Paperback – May 1, 1984

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Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature.

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Forced by her parents' ambitions among her wealthy D'Urberville 'cousins, ' Tess Durbeyfield attracts the unscrupulous Alec. Seduced and discarded, she finds work as a milkmaid, and her steadfast integrity is finally rewarded by the love of Angle Clare.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0553211684
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Classics; Reissue edition (May 1, 1984)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780553211689
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553211689
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1110L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.16 x 0.73 x 6.85 inches
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Thomas Hardy was born in a cottage in Higher Bockhampton, near Dorchester, on 2 June 1840. He was educated locally and at sixteen was articled to a Dorchester architect, John Hicks. In 1862 he moved to London and found employment with another architect, Arthur Blomfield. He now began to write poetry and published an essay. By 1867 he had returned to Dorset to work as Hicks's assistant and began his first (unpublished) novel, The Poor Man and the Lady.

On an architectural visit to St Juliot in Cornwall in 1870 he met his first wife, Emma Gifford. Before their marriage in 1874 he had published four novels and was earning his living as a writer. More novels followed and in 1878 the Hardys moved from Dorset to the London literary scene. But in 1885, after building his house at Max Gate near Dorchester, Hardy again returned to Dorset. He then produced most of his major novels: The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892) and Jude the Obscure (1895). Amidst the controversy caused by Jude the Obscure, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse, The Dynasts.

After a long and bitter estrangement, Emma Hardy died at Max Gate in 1912. Paradoxically, the event triggered some of Hardy's finest love poetry. In 1914, however, he married Florence Dugdale, a close friend for several years. In 1910 he had been awarded the Order of Merit and was recognized, even revered, as the major literary figure of the time. He died on 11 January 1928. His ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey and his heart at Stinsford in Dorset.

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Jean-Francois Millet’s Angelus is its Opposite
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Jean-Francois Millet’s Angelus is its Opposite
The Angelus of Jean-Francois Millet precisely epitomizes the opposite of the theme of Thomas Hardy’s Tess.Europe, thirty years before the turn of the last century, still has a peasant class which clung to a way of life that had been practiced, albeit with evolution and adaption, for centuries. Time was marked by the time it took to say Hail Marys and morning, noon and night were marked by the recitation of the Angelus—recalling the entrance of God into human form.Tess is no opponent of the Sermon on the Mount. But in a time of Low vs. High Church she sees nature as the primary guide of life. Herself naturally good and beautiful she gradually comes to reject the idea of an Omniscient Providence and sees no need to seek personal forgiveness.She is born out of time. While society values birth and status and the Church preaches creeds and gospels which never strike a chord, Tess craves for a time when the gods of nature held sway over the hearts and minds of men.Hardy’s novel then allows the reader to look into the abandonment of organized religion by the lower classes. While it’s true that their conversion to communism was short lived, the diminished importance of religion has persisted to the point where most people need to have Millet’s masterpiece explained to them.Tess is not essential reading. But if you do want to read a non-Marxist perspective on why the descendants of the serfs (who after all are most of our ancestors) progressively lost interest in the enchantment of the natural world Tess is certainly a good choice. Highly recommended.
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