Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A pure woman - Thomas Hardy
KORTE INHOUD
Thick pocket, 446 pp. A moving novel of hypocricy and double standards. In 1891 it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.
Cover illustration: Detail from Haymaking near Wonersh, Surrey by Sutton Palmer.
Note LT: Tess was first translated in Dutch in 1895, but this translation seems to have disappeared from the market. Theme: The novel is pessimistic: the poor always lose, honnesty doesn't pay. In this respect history repeats itself as men does not change fundamentally. Detail: One of the characters (Angel) reads 'Das Kapital' of Marx but he stays shortsighted.
From the foreword to the first edition of 1891: If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than the truth be concealed.
Cover illustration: Detail from Haymaking near Wonersh, Surrey by Sutton Palmer.
Note LT: Tess was first translated in Dutch in 1895, but this translation seems to have disappeared from the market. Theme: The novel is pessimistic: the poor always lose, honnesty doesn't pay. In this respect history repeats itself as men does not change fundamentally. Detail: One of the characters (Angel) reads 'Das Kapital' of Marx but he stays shortsighted.
From the foreword to the first edition of 1891: If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than the truth be concealed.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A pure woman
Thick pocket, 446 pp. A moving novel of hypocricy and double standards. In 1891 it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.
Cover illustration: Detail from Haymaking near Wonersh, Surrey by Sutton Palmer.
Note LT: Tess was first translated in Dutch in 1895, but this translation seems to have disappeared from the market. Theme: The novel is pessimistic: the poor always lose, honnesty doesn't pay. In this respect history repeats itself as men does not change...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A pure woman
Thick pocket, 446 pp. A moving novel of hypocricy and double standards. In 1891 it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic.
Cover illustration: Detail from Haymaking near Wonersh, Surrey by Sutton Palmer.
Note LT: Tess was first translated in Dutch in 1895, but this translation seems to have disappeared from the market. Theme: The novel is pessimistic: the poor always lose, honnesty doesn't pay. In this respect history repeats itself as men does not change...
