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Title details for Tess of the D'urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Available

Tess of the D'urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy
Marcelle Clements
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An intimate portrait of a woman, one of literature's most admirable and tragic heroines...
Tess Durbeyfield knows what it is to work hard and expect little. But her life is about to veer from the path trod by her mother and grandmother. When her ne’er-do-well father learns that his family is the last of a long noble line, the d’Urbervilles, he sends Tess on a journey to meet her supposed kin—a journey that will see her victimized by lust, poverty, and hypocrisy. Shaped by an acute sense of social injustice and by a vision of human fate cosmic in scope, her story is a singular blending of harsh realism and poignant 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 shocked contemporary readers with its honesty and remains a timeless commentary on the human condition.
With an Introduction by Marcelle Clements 

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  • Release date

    September 5, 2006

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781101141830

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781101141830
      • File size: 733 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • ATOS Level: 9.5
    • Lexile® Measure: 1090
    • Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    • Text Difficulty: 7-9

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 28, 2008
      Anna Bentinck ratchets up the melodrama for this full-blooded reading of Hardy's classic—a staple of high-school English classes everywhere. Students desperate to penetrate Hardy's notoriously slow masterpiece should turn to Bentinck, who gives it an intense emotional coloring. She makes Hardy sound like a brother to the Brontë sisters: passionate and brooding. Bentinck alternates between a crisp, precise narrative voice that sounds like Helen Mirren, and Tess's own voice, quavering, shallow and meek. Bentinck retains her composure throughout, and her assured performance may be a welcome rescue for struggling 11th graders across the country.

Formats

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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:9.5
  • Lexile® Measure:1090
  • Interest Level:9-12(UG)
  • Text Difficulty:7-9

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