Tess

Author: Hardy
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Publish Date: 1993-03-01
Features: This is the author's best work. Tess, a simple and beautiful rural girl, was violated by a wealthy man. On her wedding night, she tells her husband about her misfortune, but he cannot forgive her and abandons her. Forced by livelihood, Tess has to cohabit with the wealthy man. Later, her husband changes his mind and wishes to make amends with Tess. In despair, Tess believes that the wealthy man has ruined her happiness for life and kills him, only to be executed herself. The work profoundly reflects the social reality of the time, exposing how the hypocritical bourgeois morality led to Tess's misfortune.