Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

A poor country girl, ruined by one man and abandoned by another she loves, is driven at last to murder and the scaffold. Hardy's fierce tragedy of a 'pure woman.'

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