Tess of the D'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy
Recommended by Lena Dunham and Kurt Busiek
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Fiction.
An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.'How could I be expected to know I was a child when I left this house four months ago. Why didn't you tell me there was danger in menfolk Why didn't you warn me 'When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their...
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Kurt Busiek
“It was either TESS OF THE FUCKING D?URBERVILLES or SILAS MARNER. I liked TESS more when I read it as an Adult,, and I bet I?d like SILAS MARNER more, too. I don?t understand why they give some of these books to adolescents to read. | It was either TESS OF THE FUCKING D’URBERVILLES or SILAS MARNER. I liked TESS more when I read it as an Adult,, and I bet I’d like SILAS MARNER more, too. I don’t understand why they give some of these books to adolescents to read.”
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