Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Descrizione dell’editore
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is a novel about a country girl named Tess who is sent off to live with a relative as a ‘claim kin’ because of her parents’ financial problems. Tess meets with tragedy at her new home and the story unfolds from there. As with Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy challenged the sexual mores of the prudish Victorian period with this story.
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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.
