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01829aam a22003135a 4500 001 126476C227E011E28D42D0E26AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20220930010357 008 041117s2005 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2004116680 020 $a 9781593082284 020 $a 1593082282 040 $c DLC $d SILO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Hardy, Thomas. 245 1 $a Tess of the D'Urbervilles / $c Thomas Hardy, David Galef ; [edited by] George Stade. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Barnes & Noble Classics, $c 2005. 263 $a 0506 300 $a 506 p. 440 0 $a Barnes & Noble classics 500 $a Introduction and Notes by David Galef. 520 $a Using richly poetic language to frame a shattering narrative of love, seduction, betrayal, and murder, Hardy tells the story of Tess Durbeyfield, a beautiful young woman living with her impoverished family in Wessex, the southwestern English county immortalized by Hardy. After the family learns of their connection to the wealthy dUrbervilles, they send Tess to claim a portion of their fortune. She meets and is seduced by the dissolute Alec dUrberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. A very different man, Angel Clare, seems to offer Tess love and salvation, but he rejects heron their wedding nightafter learning of her past. Emotionally bereft, financially impoverished, and victimized by the self-righteous rigidity of English social morality, Tess escapes from her vise of passion through a horrible, desperate act. 650 $a Classics. 650 $a Love and Relationships $x Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l BIPB251 $d 20211215011834.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20180127010337.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20121106011155.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=126476C227E011E28D42D0E26AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search