Tess of the D'Urbervilles

[dur-ber-vilz]

noun

1. a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.

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Schneider is also possessed of an elegant and prolific literary bent, citing Thomas Hardy’s “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” as his current favorite novel.

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I had never read “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” to my embarrassment, so I stuck with SARS-CoV-2.

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“It’s in ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles,’ where Tess is doomed by hapless chance.

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Before writing such classics as “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” and “Far From the Madding Crowd,” Hardy worked for the architect Arthur Blomfield, whose firm was hired in the 1860s for an unappealing job: exhuming human remains, including recently buried ones, from the cemetery to make way for a new railway line.

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In his 1891 novel, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles,” Thomas Hardy evokes with a single sentence the slow fading of a constellation of once-dominant attitudes about time, space and money.

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