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Summary: A lethally interesting work
Review: TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES is just one of those books you can't put down, even if it means something lethal. My mind was tinkering and felt like it was going to BLOW, the characters were so...so...deep...so...so...troubled...so...so...ah, read it yourself, it's hard to describe!
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Summary: Couldn't put this one down!
Review: Everytime I picked up this book I wanted to scream to Tess to reveal to Angel her true self, because only then could her romance with him be the perfect one she so long sought. Hardy tells it well, attempting to understand the ridicule and unjustice women had to endure at the time. Although he could never fully percieve a woman's point-of-view, I thought he did a good job expressing the trying times women had; those that women have overcome.
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Summary: Definately the best female character of Victorian literature
Review: Tess Durberfield is perhaps one of the most astounding and complex characters in Victorian literature, maybe even of ALL literature. She surpasses many in homliness, feminity, and above all purity.
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Summary: Ah, Tess Tess Tess
Review: Tess is such a weak character, one you'd love to hate. That's what makes this book so appealing, you want to hate her, but you can't. From, Meredith
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Summary: It's OK
Review: It was really a great book, but what is Tess's problem?!?She is just too trusting and dependant. And Angel. He's seriously got issues. I mean, come on! He liked Tess just because she was perfect!! DON'T GET ME WRONG, THE BOOK REALLY WAS GREAT!!
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Summary: the best work of literature ive read so far....
Review: any woman can both despise and admire tess at the same time for her weaknesses & her strength. under such repressive conditions of the victorian society, i believe that she handled her blighted situation as best she knew how....theres so much more to say , its a terrific novel.
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Summary: KILL ME, PLEASE
Review: either me or the 12 grade teacher who assigned this piece of crap. This book was so terrible no one is my class read it, out teacher would have to come to class with 25 photocopies of the pages we were going over because no one would "remember" to bring thier book to class. As a story it was poigent and overdone, as a character, Tess was an insult to women everywhere. She had no backbone unill the end of the novel. fankly, I liked Hardy's poetry better and wish this book would be removed from all required reading list.
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Summary: Pure True Love Story
Review: I love the passonate tale of Tess and her husband, who married for purity, not for her. It is heartbreaking.
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Summary: Realistic and Heartbreaking
Review: A beaute of a book to read. I fell in love with the characters, even weak/strong Tess. You have to read this book! This is the best Victorian literature can get.
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Summary: Intellectually Stimulating Victorian Novel; Lovely
Review: No one else can write such a forceful story with a forceful plot as well as Thomas Hardy can. You feel pain, grieve, and above all respect for the characters in a sense. This book just gives off vibes of wonder, no book has this same power. Everyone should read TESS OF THE DURBERVILLES or at least something by Thomas Hardy at least once in their lives.
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