World Classic Novel ---- Tess

Author: (British) Hardy
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Publish Date: 2000-04-01
Features: Tess is an innocent, pure, and beautiful rural girl. Due to poverty, she goes to work for the named De who shares her surname. She is violated by the master's son, Alec d'Urberville, and gives birth to an illegitimate child. After the child dies, Tess leaves home and works at a dairy farm, where she falls in love with the pastor's son, Angel Clare. However, on their wedding night, when Tess confesses her past, Angel, who had once been with a loose woman himself, refuses to forgive her and abandons her. In despair, Tess soon becomes Alec's mistress again. Several years later, Angel returns from Brazil, weakened by illness, intending to reunite with Tess. Tess kills Alec and flees with Angel. However, they are soon captured by the police and later sentenced to hanging.