Tess of the d’Urbervilles
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Publisher Description
“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy recounts the story of naïve and beautiful Tess Durbeyfield. After learning about their noble lineage, Tess’s parents inspire her advances towards a nearby wealthy family called d’Urberville. Wicked Alec d’Urberville seduces Tess who secretly bears his child. Later working as a dairymaid, she meets Angel Clare, an idealistic gentleman who marries her but soon rejects her on their wedding night after learning of her past. But Tess’s life takes a tumultuous turn when both the men in her life reappear.
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Anna Bentinck ratchets up the melodrama for this full-blooded reading of Hardy's classic a staple of high-school English classes everywhere. Students desperate to penetrate Hardy's notoriously slow masterpiece should turn to Bentinck, who gives it an intense emotional coloring. She makes Hardy sound like a brother to the Bront sisters: passionate and brooding. Bentinck alternates between a crisp, precise narrative voice that sounds like Helen Mirren, and Tess's own voice, quavering, shallow and meek. Bentinck retains her composure throughout, and her assured performance may be a welcome rescue for struggling 11th graders across the country.
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