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Tessa d'Urberville: Historia kobiety czystej

Róża Czekańska-Heymanowa, Thomas Hardy

3.67 AVERAGE

lilyreads01's review against another edition

4.75

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jaimeogrady's review against another edition

3.75

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haleysdad's review against another edition

4.25

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veriity's review against another edition

5.0

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

nabe's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Gorgeous prose. We need to outlaw men.

emmazd's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

deathclassic's review against another edition

3.0

mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

_ale3za's review against another edition

5.0

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“Why, I danced and laughed only yesterday! To think that I was such a fool!” 
me after reading this book and immediately falling into a deep depression. Hardy, you cruel, cruel man. 

hendriana's review against another edition

3.5

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mirandadarrow's review against another edition

5.0

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I read this book many years ago (about 20 years ago, when I was in college) and it has stuck with me vividly this whole time. It was beautiful. It was terrible. And I loved it.

The imagery is awesome. I can still picture Tess in the field with Alex feeding her strawberries. and Angel, carrying her across the stream, and Tess, milking cows. And Stonehenge. I will never not think of Tess while picturing Stonehenge. Ah. All the feels, as the kids say these days.

When I was in college, I had a pair of anglefish sharing a bowl, one mostly white and one mostly black, and named them Angel and Alec. They had an interesting yin-yang pattern quality on the two fish. It was awesome. I should re-read it. Now where did I put my copy?