Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

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A young countrywoman is punished all her life for what was done to her, and Hardy turns that injustice into an indictment of Victorian morality.

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) told the English countryside as a place where social morality crushes the individual.

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