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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

par Thomas Hardy · 68 parties · about 12 hours 23 minutes de lecture

Finn, your Starvard guide

Bonjour, je m'appelle Finn et je vais t'aider à comprendre ce livre.

Le voici, expliqué comme si tu avais 10 ans :

Tess est une pauvre fille de la campagne dont la famille découvre qu'ils sont de lointains cousins d'une famille riche, et cette découverte ruine sa vie par étapes. Elle est blessée par des hommes, jugée par tout le monde, et elle continue à travailler et à espérer malgré tout. Hardy l'a écrit pour mettre les lecteurs en colère contre un monde qui punit la mauvaise personne, et ça marche toujours.

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Le livre complet se lit en anglais. Voici tous les chapitres :

Chapitres

Explanatory Note to the First Edition1 min Epigraph1 min Phase the First: The Maiden1 min Chapter I9 min Chapter II13 min Chapter III12 min Chapter IV19 min Chapter V17 min Chapter VI8 min Chapter VII8 min Chapter VIII8 min Chapter IX10 min Chapter X16 min Chapter XI10 min Phase the Second: Maiden No More1 min Chapter XII15 min Chapter XIII6 min Chapter XIV23 min Chapter XV5 min Phase the Third: The Rally1 min Chapter XVI10 min Chapter XVII14 min Chapter XVIII14 min Chapter XIX14 min Chapter XX7 min Chapter XXI11 min Chapter XXII5 min Chapter XXIII13 min Chapter XXIV7 min Phase the Fourth: The Consequence1 min Chapter XXV17 min Chapter XXVI12 min Chapter XXVII11 min Chapter XXVIII9 min Chapter XXIX10 min Chapter XXX12 min Chapter XXXI17 min Chapter XXXII12 min Chapter XXXIII19 min Chapter XXXIV19 min Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays1 min Chapter XXXV16 min Chapter XXXVI20 min Chapter XXXVII16 min Chapter XXXVIII9 min Chapter XXXIX12 min Chapter XL12 min Chapter XLI14 min Chapter XLII10 min Chapter XLIII20 min Chapter XLIV18 min Phase the Sixth: The Convert1 min Chapter XLV17 min Chapter XLVI20 min Chapter XLVII16 min Chapter XLVIII12 min Chapter XLIX14 min Chapter L13 min Chapter LI13 min Chapter LII13 min Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment1 min Chapter LIII9 min Chapter LIV8 min Chapter LV8 min Chapter LVI8 min Chapter LVII12 min Chapter LVIII14 min Chapter LIX4 min

Explanatory Note to the First Edition

The main portion of the following story appeared—with slight modifications—in The Graphic newspaper; other chapters, more especially addressed to adult readers, in the Fortnightly Review and the National Observer, as episodic sketches. My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as originally written two years ago.

I will just add that the story is sent out in all sincerity of purpose, as an attempt to give artistic form to a true sequence of things; and in respect of the book’s opinions and sentiments, I would ask any too genteel reader, who cannot endure to have said what everybody nowadays thinks and feels, to remember a well-worn sentence of St. Jerome’s: If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come than that the truth be concealed.

T. H.

November 1891.