Tess Of The Durbervilles Thomas Hardy

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9391242650
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tess of d'Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy and published by Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House . This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the impoverished Durbeyfield family learn that they may be descendants of the royal d’Urberville family, they are delighted at the thought of owning a potential fortune and ask their daughter, young Tess, to go and stake their claim. She initially refuses, but is forced to go when she accidentally kills their horse and cripples their livelihood. But her meeting with Alec d’Urberville goes horribly wrong, and she returns home in shame. Tess later falls in love with the kind Angel Clare but is forced to make a difficult decision: to tell him the truth of her past and face the consequences, or to remain silent. The book was controversial when first published and deemed “socially unacceptable” by some as Hardy’s uniquely feminist portrayal of Tess challenged the sexual morals of the time.

Author : Jennifer Jacquet
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307950131
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is Shame Necessary? written by Jennifer Jacquet and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform. “[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior.” —The Boston Globe Examining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of social media, Jennifer Jacquet shows that we can challenge corporations and even governments to change policies and behaviors that are detrimental to the environment. Urgent and illuminating, Is Shame Necessary? offers an entirely new understanding of how shame, when applied in the right way and at the right time, has the capacity to keep us from failing our planet and, ultimately, from failing ourselves.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781904633105
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tess of the D'Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess of the D'Urbervilles is probably Thomas Hardy's most famous novel. Set in the West of England, in a beautifully described rural landscape, it tells the tragic story of Tess Durbeyfield, an innocent village girl who is seduced by a wealthy rake, Alec D'Urberville. Because she does not love him, she does not even attempt to make him marry her, but returns to her home village pregnant and disgraced in the eyes of the local community. The baby dies in infancy, and after regaining her emotional strength, Tess goes to work as a milkmaid in a different valley. Here she meets the true love of her life, Angel Clare, but even though he loves her too, they are unable to escape from the consequences of her past. One of the great Classics of Nineteenth Century literature, Tess of the D'Urbervilles recounts an unforgettably powerful tragedy.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375756795
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tess of the d'Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etched against the background of a dying rural society, Tess of the d'Urbervilles was Thomas Hardy's 'bestseller,' and Tess Durbeyfield remains his most striking and tragic heroine. Of all the characters he created, she meant the most to him. Hopelessly torn between two men—Alec d'Urberville, a wealthy, dissolute young man who seduces her in a lonely wood, and Angel Clare, her provincial, moralistic, and unforgiving husband—Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. 'Like the greatest characters in literature, Tess lives beyond the final pages of the book as a permanent citizen of the imagination,' said Irving Howe. 'In Tess he stakes everything on his sensuous apprehension of a young woman's life, a girl who is at once a simple milkmaid and an archetype of feminine strength. . . . Tess is that rare creature in literature: goodness made interesting.' Now Tess of the d'Urbervilles has been brought to television in a magnificent new co-production from A&E Network and London Weekend Television. Justine Waddell (Anna Karenina) stars as the tragic heroine, Tess; Oliver Milburn (Chandler & Co.) is Angel Clare; and Jason Flemyng is Alec d'Urberville. The cast also includes John McEnery (Black Beauty) as Jack Durbeyfield and Lesley Dunlop (The Elephant Man) as Joan Durbeyfield. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is directed by Ian Sharp and produced by Sarah Wilson, with a screenplay by Ted Whitehead; it was filmed in Hardy country, the beautiful English countryside in Dorset where Thomas Hardy set his novels.

Author : Jill Dawson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062202510
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lucky Bunny written by Jill Dawson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pacy and atmospheric…wickedly good." —Marie Claire (UK) "Dawson's heroine is so fresh and spirited that she carries the day." —Sunday Times (London) Having already made waves in the United Kingdom, Lucky Bunny has come to America. Acclaimed poet and author Jill Dawson, whose previous novels have been shortlisted for England's Whitbread Award and Orange Prize, now gives us the story of vivacious and endearing thief Queenie Dove, a Moll Flanders for World War II Britain. Brilliantly recreating mid-twentieth century London, from the bustling streets to the seamy underworld, from the Depression Era through the Blitz and into the 1950s, Lucky Bunny entangles readers in the adventurous life of a truly captivating anti-heroine, a self-proclaimed genius in the art of survival. Before the Krays, there was Queenie Dove… and readers will never forget her.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019284069X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tess of the D'Urbervilles written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbevilles, and meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love and salvation, she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.

Author : James Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy written by James Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and background - Writing, publication and initial critical reception of Tess - Summaries and critical commentary - What the novel is about.

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427041008
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of the Well-beloved written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott McEathron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317797175
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles written by Scott McEathron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook offers an introduction to Thomas Hardy's crucial novel, offering: a contextual overview, a chronology and reprinted contemporary documents, including a selection of Hardy's poems an overview of the book's early reception and recent critical fortunes, as well as a wide range of reprinted extracts from critical works key passages from the novel, reprinted with editorial comment and cross-referenced within the volume to contextual and critical documents suggestions for further reading and a list of relevant web resources. For students on a wide range of courses, this sourcebook offers the essential stepping-stone from a basic reading knowledge to an advanced understanding of Hardy's best-known novel.

Author : Katy Towell
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 037587240X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow written by Katy Towell and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities—Adelaide has an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf, Maggie is abnormally strong, and Beatrice claims to be able to see ghosts—the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's inhospitable library facing detention. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with Steffen Weller, son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who is behind the abductions. Will they be able to save Widowsbury from a sinister 12-year-old curse?