Tess of the D'Urbervilles

By Thomas Hardy, Ann Kronheimer (Illustrator)

Can Tess escape her past and find love, or will secrets and betrayal shatter her future?

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64 pages

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Tess Durbeyfield, seeking a better life, encounters the charming Alec d’Urberville. Alone and vulnerable, she questions his intentions. Later, she falls for Angel Clare, but fears her past may ruin their love. As Tess navigates betrayal and societal expectations, can she find happiness, or will her secrets doom her? This tale of courage and love challenges the boundaries of forgiveness and the weight of past actions.

From the publisher

Following a series of misfortunes, Tess Durbeyfield leaves her impoverished family to seek work with her rich relations. Her new employer, Alec d’Urberville, seems charming and kind. Tess has a mind of her own, but she is vulnerable and alone among strangers. Can she trust Alec? A year later Tess meets Angel Clare, and they fall in love. If Angel discovers the truth about Tess’s past, will he still love her? In this gripping story of courage, love and betrayal, Thomas Hardy asks many difficult questions. Are the expectations of women and men the same? Can we ever escape the consequences of our past actions? How much pain can one person live with? Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world’s greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

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