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A review by r0sem4rie
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
3.0
”But where was Tess’s guardian angle?” is one of the saddest quotes I’ve ever read.
A tragically beautiful book. Thomas Hardy’s prose is so poetic and so effective in its critique of Victorian society and their stupid double standards and criminalisation and rejection of “impure women”. Tess deserved so much more.
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
”The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary.”
A tragically beautiful book. Thomas Hardy’s prose is so poetic and so effective in its critique of Victorian society and their stupid double standards and criminalisation and rejection of “impure women”. Tess deserved so much more.
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
”The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary.”