When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with
the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune,
meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different
man, Angel
Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose
whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful
future.
With its sensitive depiction of the wronged Tess and powerful criticism
of social convention, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most
moving and poetic of Hardy's novels.
When Tess Durbeyfield
is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy
D’Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her
‘cousin’ Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man, Angel
Clare, seems to offer her love and salvation, but Tess must choose
whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful
future.
A
few days after Oak's proposal, Bathsheba went to Weatherbury - which was more
than twenty miles away. Had she gone to live in the town, or was she only visiting
it? Oak did not know. But his love for Bathseba grew stronger now that she was
further away from him. And then sometning happened that changed his life.
'We
must take te good luck with the bad luck, Tess,' Mrs Durbeyfield said that evening.
'It's bad luck that Prince was killed. But it's good luck that we discovered
that we are a noble family at this time.
