

Cargando... Tess D´Urberville (1891)por Thomas Hardy
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Female Protagonist (21) » 61 más BBC Big Read (65) Favorite Long Books (33) A Novel Cure (33) Unread books (131) Folio Society (128) BBC Big Read (33) Tagged Social Class (11) Books Read in 2017 (544) Books Read in 2020 (713) Women's reading list (17) 100 World Classics (54) Books I've read (1) United Kingdom (60) KayStJ's to-read list (219) Victorian Period (24) 19th Century (100) 1890s (23) Books on my Kindle (45) BBC Top Books (49) Country Life (2) Books About Murder (243) Abuse (50) Best family sagas (219) Didactic Fiction (5) Love Triangles (5) Women's Stories (16) Adultery (8) Best Love Stories (16) No hay Conversaciones actualmente sobre este libro. Great book wonderfully written. ( ![]() Thomas Hardy is some kind of demented genius. He depicts the hypocrisy of gender stereotypes in Victorian society so vividly that you feel the acutest dread and misery as you read. It's about as pleasant as an annual pap smear. Or a root canal. I do not ever feel the need to read this book again. Tess is a pathetic, sweet, naive little flower, and the men are horrible. This was a miserable reading experience, and it does.not.let.up. In stead of reading the paper edition, I chose to listen to the audio version of this book. Well, what can I say. In a way it was a great portrait of several characters. Modern people, stubborn, old fashioned ones. It was also an account of the life of Tess, who started out as a naive young girl that was terribly harmed and took a big blow from life. I didn't particularly like the writing style (the secrecy, not overtly writing about a subject or describing what is happening. It is part of the time frame though, so I've put up with it. And again a more or less helpless woman (who can earn her own bread & butter), but is bound to a man/men by the circumstances, unable to get out because of conventions. Even though I realized that while reading, it still made me livid... This book was so tragic it was painful. But I am left wondering...why? Maybe this is some kind of commentary on the world and the people of Hardy's time, maybe this tells us something about where we all were culturally or socially, but I couldn't see it for all of the gut-wrenching heartbreak. Usually tragedy goes hand-in-hand with some sense of "rightness" or meaning but this hurt so bad that I rushed my way through the ending just so the pain would stop. Hardy's writing is beautiful, and timeless in a way that even I found it was accessible in the world of 2019 Internetspeak. Just why did it have to hurt so much? The actions of Tess's husband at two critical junctures are implausible but necessary for plot development. Or I should say plausible within a framework of Victorian sexual morality that is essential for the plot to work. Without that morality there would be no sad story to tell here.
Daring in its treatment of conventional ideas, pathetic in its sadness, and profoundly stirring by its tragic power. The very title, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman", is a challenge to convention. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAlianza Tres (49) Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli (Grandi classici) — 22 más Modern Library (72) Penguin English Library (EL135) Contenida enRomanzi por Thomas Hardy THOMAS HARDY (OMNIBUS: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE TESS OF THE URBERVILLES THE WOODLANDERS WESSEX TALES) por Thomas Hardy Tess of the d’Urbervilles: Complete, Authoritative Text with Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays from Five Contemporary Critical Perspectives por Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd / Jude the Obscure / The Mayor of Casterbridge / The Return of the Native / Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Five Novels) por Thomas Hardy ContieneEstá renarrado enTiene la adaptaciónTiene un estudioTiene como guía de estudio a
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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