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Summary: Five Star "Tess" is tragic and beautiful
Review: Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is intellectually stimulating with its literary allusions and captivating storyline.
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Summary: Wonderful Story; Beautiful Writing
Review: I found myself disecting each paragraph and reading sentences over and over again, with no reason to may I also add. There was so much meaning behind everything, so much depth and wandering.Unlike many readers, I do think Tess to be a heroine, she was strong enough to tell Angel about her past, which haunted her and she knew that it would have affected Angel and her's relationship. Vibrant and alive, this tale jumps down your skin.
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Summary: how tess' motherhood experience change her life...
Review: Tess, a naive and young girl whose one night relationship with her cousin Alec ruins her life, is a great example of a woman in love who would do anything for her husband and nothing for herself. Tess is a great book to read. I NEED HELP AND SOON IN LESS THAN A WEEK I HAVE A TERM PAPER ON TESS DUE (THE CONSEQUENCES OF MOTHERHOOD BEFORE BEING WED IN ENGLAND IN THE 1800'S AS SEEN IN TESS) PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY MATERIAL THAT CAN HELP ME EMAIL IT TO ME. tHANKS IN ADVANCED!!!!!
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Summary: Wow.
Review: There is so much to say for Tess. It is an extremely moving and powerful work. I don't care what Aristotle says- it is tragic. Tess is one of the most real heroines I've ever met. If you find yourself a little bored in the beginning- don't give up. I almost did, but I am so glad that I forced myself to read on. By the third phase I was hooked. This work really makes one think about and question technology and religion. It also shows us the cruelty of the Victorian double standard. Read it! But prepare yourself for the heart wrenching ending, i.e.- have tissues at hand.
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Summary: Tess the Depressed!
Review: I am a Senior at Linville High School. I recently read Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles for my term paper. I chose it because a teacher told me it was very good. I was quite disappointed with the book in general. After reading the description on the back of the book, I inferred that Tess would be confronted with a problem, but being the "heroine" she was described as, she would overcome it victoriously. Unfortunately, I was completely wrong. Tess depressed and frustrated me extremely throughout the book. She cowarded down and let people run over her. The only thing that was good was the little surprises inserted every now and then. The whole book depressed me and I would rather not read another book of Hardy's again.
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Summary: Witty, charming and deliciously hillarious!
Review: After reading Tess of the Durbervilles I could not help but feel a little disapointed when I finished it. I couldn't tear myself away from it. I absolutely adored Tess's manners and her "cousins" annnoying manner of Tess's sweet temper. I always wondered wether if Tess and he would get together throughout the entire novel. Boy was I surprised!
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Summary: Officially tied as my all time favorite novel
Review: In case you are wondering, the novel it tied with is Dostoevsky's THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. I have read this three times in three sittings. In case that is not clear, I mean to say that I have sat down to read TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES on three separate occasions, and did not get up until I had finished it. I once stayed up all night long to finish it. Just one of the great, irrestible book in the English language.
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Summary: Weak Female
Review: Even with a "weak" leading woman, that's what makes this book so different to read from other books out there. I don't think Hardy had a thing against women, it's just the way he wanted this woman to be. A fatal lover, Tess proves to be stronger than one would think she would be. The short scene before her death at stonehedge just emphasises this woman's (how do you say) weakness? I can't describe how wonderful this book is. Tess of the Durbervilles is Thomas Hardy's equivalent towards The Ambassadores by Henry James. Both are flooded with metaphores. Both take time to read to digest the words. It's just sad to see that some people don't know how to appreciate a long beloved Victorian Classic. They should read it again, and hopefully understand it the next time.
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Summary: Tess of The Doldrums
Review: Without revealing too much of the plot of this classic novel, I simply find this book to be slightly overrated, although I probably wouldn't be averse to reading something by Hardy later on. Historically speaking, I'm impressed that Tess' feeling of oppression registered easily to my perspective (I do not claim to be an expert on the mores of Victorian England). It's easy to scream at Tess to try to give up her hope of reuniting with Angel towards the latter end of the book and simply get on with her life (read: _The Awakening_). I think Hardy focused less with her romantic struggle and more about her resistance against her inbred sense of fatalism and the provincial society who knows all too well her life history. Her final actions at Stonehenge are all the more sad because it seems as if she is unable to defeat any of these "traditions," and simply resigned herself to the lineage of her more barbaric ancestors (routinely mentioned in the form of her do-nothing father's platitudes). I give the book three stars mainly because the endless descriptions of the English countryside as a emotive complement to Tess, Angel or whoever else the story focused upon occasionally really slurred the pace of the story. I think it's ultimately a good read, but barely.
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Summary: The book was good, but so sad, I was angry that I read it.
Review: I really really liked this book, but what I really think should happen here is to put full text cliff notes or barron's book notes so that they're easy to find. It's driving me insane that I can't find one single critical essay about Jude the Obscure. It's insane-driving.
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