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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1891
Pages
Pages 400

A poor country girl sent to claim kinship with a rich family is ruined by one man, judged for it by the man she loves, and driven at last to a killing that costs her everything.

'Justice' was done, and the President of the Immortals, in AEschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

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