![]() Combining this with a tremendous love of his home county, Dorset, Hardy’s works exhibit a strong connection to nature and landscape and come across as moody and deeply atmospheric. Loss in Thomas Hardy’s own life leant him a disposition towards writing about tragedy and suffering. ![]() A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her ‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. If you’ve never read it, here’s a little sum up of the story: Why would you willingly put yourself through such a thing? It’s one of my favourites.īut why? I hear you all lamenting. ![]() ![]() Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (1891) is a weep throughout and sob at the end kind of novel. Novels filled with beautiful prose and vivid imagery that lean towards the tragic more than the happy. As much as I like an uplifting story that makes you feel all warm inside, my greatest love is literature that moves me. ![]()
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