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Hardy’s tragic masterpiece, Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), is the haunting story of a vulnerable young village woman. Highly critical of 19th-century morals, it is also wonderfully exuberant in its descriptions of the English countryside.Read about another book Nicholson tagged.
--Marshal Zeringue