Tess of the Durbervilles a Pure Woman

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Thomas Hardy: Tess of the Durbervilles a Pure Woman (Hardcover, Cathay)

Hardcover, 264 pages

Published by Cathay.

ISBN:
978-0-86178-232-1
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OCLC Number:
12477270

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3 stars (16 reviews)

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 …

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Tess es una hermosa joven, hija de una familia pobre y más o menos resignada a lo que le corresponde, hasta que el padre descubre que tiene ancestros de la nobleza que perdieron su riqueza. Pero como lo importante es el apellido y lo que representa, la familia parece perder la cordura y se envía a la pobre Tess a visitar a un supuesto primo con aquel apellido, a fin de que la acepten y se propicie un adecuado matrimonio que mejore las condiciones de los suyos. Ahí inicia un calvario para Tess que ha de afrontar el dolor, el rechazo y el escarnio, a pesar de ser una joven bella y trabajadora, aplicada en lo que hace.

Tess ha sido criada para obedecer, sumisa a lo que el futuro le depare, no se cree con fuerza para oponerse ante las adversidades, se ve débil e incapaz de tomar decisiones, …

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