Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman

by Thomas Hardy · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 10 · 6,003 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Children of clergy — Fiction · Children of the rich — Fiction · Didactic fiction · Man-woman relationships — Fiction

Words worth knowing: rhododendron · peat · bevy · gossamer · jaunt · milkman · ensnare · dumbly

Tess of the d’Urbervilles A Pure Woman Faithfully presented by Thomas Hardy ... Poor wounded name!

My bosom as a bed Shall lodge thee.—W.

My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as originally written two years ago.

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