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Tess of the D'Urbervilles

American  
[dur-ber-vilz] / ˈdɜr bərˌvɪlz /

noun

  1. a novel (1891) by Thomas Hardy.


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Tess of the D’Urbervilles is a novel about, among other things, shame.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2015

Vouchers for eyebrow-threading with Tess of the D'Urbervilles?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2014

Trishna, with Freida Pinto headlining Michael Winterbottom’s India-set retelling of Tess of the D’Urbervilles, did about the same as , per-screen, with $30,600 at three sites.

From Time ● Jul. 15, 2012

Before you know it, a box of first editions of Tess of the D’Urbervilles will have arrived from a mysterious stranger… you know who-oo!

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2012

His Tess of the D’Urbervilles was a numbered edition signed by Thomas Hardy.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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