Tess of the D'urbervilles
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This tragic work is the representative work of the British novelist Hardy. It tells the story of Tess, a poor and beautiful peasant girl who goes to work in the landlord's manor house. She loses her virginity to Alec, a bad boy from a rich family because of her youth and ignorance, and returns to her hometown pregnant. After her child died, she fell in love with Angel Clare, the son of a pastor. However, on their wedding night, she confessed the truth about losing her virginity and was not tolerated by her husband, who fled to Brazil. After Tess was abandoned, she went to work in a dairy factory. Alec, a young landowner, pesters Tess again and again. When her father died, her mother fell ill, her siblings were out of school, the family lived on the streets, and there was no news from Claire, Tess had no choice but to sacrifice her life to save her family and agreed to live with Alec. Unexpectedly, Claire changes her mind and comes back from Brazil to look for Tess. Tess was filled with regret and stabbed Alec to death. During the escape, Tess and her husband spent a few days living happily, and were finally caught and sentenced to hanging. As one of Hardy's "Wessex Series", this book is the most typical of his "character and environment novels". Its remarkable artistic feature is that the environment and the protagonist respond, set off and are closely connected with each other - the character's joy, anger, sorrow and the changes in the mood and color of the environment form an inseparable whole, and the environment predicts the character's fate and emotions.
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