Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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What’s it about?
A poor country girl, seduced and abandoned, fights to reclaim her dignity in a society that condemns her for sins she didn't commit.
You’ll learn
- How society punishes women for men's transgressions
- The cruelty of fate and social hypocrisy
- The double standard of Victorian morality
- The resilience of the human spirit