Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (1707)

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Tess d'Urberville, young innocent countryman in a family, Tess is seduite puis abandoned by Alec d'Urberville, one of her young maîtres. The child who met the world was naissant. In the puritaine société anglaise de la fin du xixe siècle, c'est là une faute irremissible, que la jeune girle aura le tort de ne pas vouloir dissimuler. Lords, they are destined to descend to the sick of the honte and of the déchéance. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) signed this pessimistic work, or the richness of the rustic paintings of Wessex does not make them store the blackness of the social universe, one of the masterpieces of the English novel, magnificently portrayed on the screen of Roman Polanski's cinema.
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An intimate portrait of a woman, one of the most admirable and tragic heroines in literature... Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But his life is about to deviate from the path taken by his mother and grandmother. When her ne'er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long line of nobles, the d'Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed relatives, a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty and hypocrisy. Shaped by a keen sense of social injustice and a cosmic vision of human destiny, her story is a unique blend of harsh realism and moving beauty. Thomas Hardy created in Tess not a standard Victorian heroine, but a woman whose intense vitality shines against the bleak backdrop of a dying way of life. The novel surprised contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary.