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Summary: Very worth all the time in your life to read
Review: The most well known Thomas Hardy novel, is also the hardest to read. His writing sways back and forth, keeping you perk and alert, trying to understand what's going on. I had to keep on flipping back to see what I had missed. As long as you understand this book, you will like it. From any other point, if you don't like the typical average classic, this one will addict you.Even after I finished reading the last page of this book, I was still thinking: " WHY? Why did that have to happen?" Then immediately read the book again. It was truthfully that good, you can't put this book down, or forget about it.
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Summary: FINALLY! An original book!
Review: I don't understand why everyone else who wrote a review didn't like this book. It's one of the weirdest yet greatest books I've read. It's up there in the pile with Jane Eyre! From my point of view, the majority of people who wrote a review where FORCED to read the book in school, and people don't like to be ordered around. I picked this book out myself at a bookstore and thank myself for doing that, it was a last minute decision to buy this book. What teachers should do is recommend books, not make students read them, it kills the interest in a book. This was a nice blend of tragic and weakness. Usually a book has a fierce female fighting the mean, crude, bad man. But this book was different, being a weak girl and innocent man, and being different is just like thinking differently, and that's good.
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Summary: A classic that isn't boring or dull, actually fun to read!!!
Review: This was a very chilling and creepy book to read, I highly enjoyed it and recommended it. It came as such a great surprise that this book, written decades ago, is comparabely as scary as Stephen King novels, but more wicked (and rather a bit more difficult of a task to read). Through circumstances and the evil of others, the young just prior nymph Tess Durverfield, suffers a series of tragedies. A victim of innocence, youth, beauty, and love. THIS WAS GREAT!
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Summary: The worst book in the history of literature.
Review: The time spent on reading this book could have been spent on someting worth while and interesting such as watching the grass grow, or picking my teeth. It was a real disappointment and the reading of this book by anyone with a life should by outlawed.
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Summary: Tess is a very weak, meek, shy, and complex character
Review: Tess Durberville/Durberfield is your average victim of Hardy's female "heroines". In this case, the female is a poor old beauty that is somewhat of a goody-goody girl. But because of her innocence and little contact with other humans, she is seduced and ultimatly raped by a distant relative, something that drags her into the pits of life and kills her in the end. I personally thought this book was difficult (had a hard time grasping what exactly happened while Tess was "seduced" and where she was "seduced). Unlike most classics, this book was very hard to put down.
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Summary: Mechanical Female
Review: Tess is a very difficult book and I would not recommend it to the average old contemporary reader. There is so much more meaning behind the birth of the rapist's child, and the break-up of Tess and her "husband" Angel. You have to read the fine-lines and "footnotes". In other words, there is absolutely no way you could relate to this book, and anyways...why would you want to relate to books? The experiences Tess goes throught at such an early age has scarred her for life. Well, she doesn't live much of a life now that you think about it.
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Summary: Very good book; unrealistic characters
Review: I had Peglet's experience when reading this book (and "Jude the Obscure" as well). I recommend, as she does, that the reader not try to empathize with the characters; it'll make you too angry. I wanted to reach into the book and strangle Angel a few times, for reasons that are obvious to anyone who has read the book. I must point out that one reviewer has stated incorrectly that Tess was "raped." If she had been, the book would not have had the force it does. It would have just been another "victim of society" or "victim of men" book. Take a close look at Tess' confession to Angel on their wedding night. Think of this book not as an indictment of marriage and Victorian mores (although it certainly was meant to be, as "Jude" further develops), but rather look at it as the relationships of three people who are never quite able to understand themselves and their natures well enough to avoid disaster. An excellent book. But once again, don't try to empathize with the characters.
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Summary: Rollercoaster riding book: fantastic classic
Review: The tragity of this book was astounding! You just have to buy this book! I felt like ripping out the pages and buying Tess of the Durberville books for my friends at the same time. This book presents plenty of mixed emotions. If your a weak person, emotionally, try read a softer Hardy book like THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, other than that, grab some tissues, and be prepared to control your emotions, it's one heck of a crazy rollercoaster ride.
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Summary: MOST WORTHY CLASSIC NOVEL
Review: As the synoposis says: Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is a magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Written in a no-nonsense yet frilly female tone, Tess of the Durbervilles is just as comarible to ADAM BEDE, both are beloved and my most honored classics every. I enthusiastically recommend the two, these are the books that deserve to be called CLASSICS.
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Summary: Candid Glance into a Painful woman
Review: When Tess and her one-day husband confess to each other their deepest and darkest secrets, it unleashes a past Tess has survived through that disgusts and turns-off her husband, Angel, which leads them to live separate lives. TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES has to be one of the most honest and candid literary novels out there yet to be printed.
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