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Tess
by Thomas Hardy
Tess d'Urberville, jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d'Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L'enfant qu'elle met au monde meurt en naissant. Dans la puritaine société anglaise de la fin du xixe siècle, c'est là une faute irrémissible, que la jeune fille aura le tort de ne pas vouloir dissimuler. Dès lors, son destin est une descente aux enfers de la honte et de la déchéance. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) signe avec cette oeuvre pessimiste, où la richesse des tableaux rustiques du Wessex ne fait que souligner la noirceur de l'univers social, un des chefs-d'oeuvre du roman anglais, magnifiquement porté à l'écran par le cinéaste Roman Polanski.
Children's Books
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERHachette
LENGTH444
LANGUAGEFR
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
4.0
Tess
by Thomas Hardy
Tess d'Urberville, jeune paysanne innocente placée dans une famille, Tess est séduite puis abandonnée par Alec d'Urberville, un de ses jeunes maîtres. L'enfant qu'elle met au monde meurt en naissant. Dans la puritaine société anglaise de la fin du xixe siècle, c'est là une faute irrémissible, que la jeune fille aura le tort de ne pas vouloir dissimuler. Dès lors, son destin est une descente aux enfers de la honte et de la déchéance. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) signe avec cette oeuvre pessimiste, où la richesse des tableaux rustiques du Wessex ne fait que souligner la noirceur de l'univers social, un des chefs-d'oeuvre du roman anglais, magnifiquement porté à l'écran par le cinéaste Roman Polanski.
Children's Books
RELEASED2013
PUBLISHERHachette
LENGTH444
LANGUAGEFR
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
