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... a matter of personal interpretation, but I have always found Hardy's "Wessex Novels", particularly Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbervilles to be rather atheistic, or at least quite existential. The tragic characters seem to be at the complete mercy of the universe, with no sense of ... Last week I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I'm now halfway through Anna Karenina, and after that I've got a choice of either Nobel-prize-winning Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, or Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. I reckon I'll plump for the former.
I love love love the Russians - Anna Karenina ... ... interesting, doesn't seem long enough to sustain a group read. That's just me, though.
I like Ivanhoe, The Odyssey, Tess and Dr. Zhivago. A few from past votes that I wouldn't mind revisiting are Wives and Daughters, Vanity Fair, and The Count of Monte Cristo. I would read Tess of the D'urbervilles too. Everyone else is so much better at suggesting books! ... because (how stupid can I be) I left Midnight's Children in France!! Says a lot for the book. Anyway, I digress.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy I would love and also I have never read Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
In addition I would be interested in The Iliad ... ... up about thirty pages from the end (... maybe twenty!).
Other than that, the only other classics I've read to date are Tess and The Odyssey... for which I loved the Fagles translation. At the top of my Classics I wish to read list is.....
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Wow ... it's been a long-long time since I read Moby Dick; I'll need to muddle that suggestion around a bit!
But ... 1. Pride and Prejudice
2. The Black Tulip
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Tess of the D'urbervilles
5. Jude the Obscure
6. Jane Eyre
7. Wuthering Heights
8. The Count of Monte Cristo
9. My Antonia
10. Vanity Fair
Not in any particular order (except numbers 1 and 2). No particular order:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland et seq.
Jane Eyre
The Count of Monte Cristo
Little Women
A Little Princess
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Sherlock Holmes stuff
Romeo and Juliet
Othello 1. Sense and Sensibility
2. Middlemarch
3. Nicholas Nickleby
4. David Copperfield
5. Tom Jones
6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles
7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
8. Wuthering Heights
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray
10. Jane Eyre ... some theories about how to interpret a particular scene in the woods"
Evidently that's not supposed to be the case in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, seeing as how the rest of the plot turns on what happens in that scene in the woods. But, when I read it in high school, I totally did not ... ... story, it's a love story like The Letters of Abelard and Heloise is a love story; like Geek Love was a love story; like Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a love story. The narrator is forced to constantly reassess both himself and Marianna throughout the course of the novel, just as people is a ... ... 1340-1397" for A Distant Mirror.
I also spotted an interesting, if unusual, variation of the extra-comma version for Tess of the d'Urbervilles. "Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Tess of the d' Urbervilles" is followed by the same with a period between Hardy's dated and the book's title.
3 ... I note Tess of the D'Urbervilles on your tbr pile. I think Thomas Hardy's writing is very stilted and difficult to follow. However, Roman Polansky's award-winning movie Tess was an incredibly beautiful production. ... lit classes in college, but this work in a high school?
The closest I have to a relevant (in this regard) defense is Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Hardy; the rape scene there is alluded to when it happens, but you're sure by the end and it really is a point the work hinges on, moreso than ... "Yes-for a holiday; for a long holiday,"
Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy
"Do you believe what you paint?" finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles which I loved. Now just starting Bonfire of the Vanities which I've never read before. I loved I am Charlotte Simmons so much decided I should try out Wolfe's most famous -- OK so far, but I think its just going to feel dated for obvious reasons. ... K by David James Duncan
2. The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
3. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
4. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
5. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi ... but it gets better. Overall, I am glad I read it, but definately NOT on my - will read again someday list.
I am reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles right now, and loving it. jhowell: I reread Tess back in January. It's definately one of my favorite angst-romantics. It's something of a grown up Jane Eyre. I am reading Tess of the D'urbervilles this weekend. Quite enjoyable in a quiet way. I am on a classics kick lately. Read The Brothers Karamazov-- enjoyable yet a bit of a chore, Brave New World - pretty good, but not my favorite subject matter, To the Ligthouse -- elegant and beautiful, ... Yes to Shirley. How about Tess of the D'Urbervilles then? ... Fair
4. *Bleak House*
5. The Mill on the Floss
6. *Kristin Lavransdatter*
7. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
8. The Age of Innocence ... Genius of Abraham Lincoln
* The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
* Tess of the d'Urbervilles
* The Trial of Joan of Arc
* Conquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
And that's only the books by ... Some of the suggested books are rather unknown to me. These are:
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D'Urberville by Thomas Hardy
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
-------------------- ... ... - Elizabeth Gaskell - 2
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann = 2
Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas = 2
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy = 2
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo = 3
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky = 3
Wuthering Heights - Emil ... ... I can't force myself to trudge through the harder bits.
My vote for next book would go to any of the following:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
The Age of Innocence
The Portrait of a Lady ... -- but not with this book.
What about....
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
TESS Of The D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy
I'm open... Looking forward to see other suggestions.
For the record, the next BBC productions, due later this year, are Tess and Little Dorrit, which strike me as very unimaginative. Cranford is returning as a two-part special at Xmas but it will not be based on a Gaskell story.
26 - the BBC probably think I'm a crackpot because I keep ... ... TBR pile include;
Classics:
Pride and Prejudice
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Maurice
Moby Dick
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tom Jones
Island of Dr. Moreau
Lord Jim
Around the World in Eighty Days
Madam Bovary
Modern Classics:
Brideshead Revisi ... ... nice notes! My "English Novel of the 19th Century" class covered Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The cool thing was that it turned out that we happened to be a small class of all women (including ... ... of people on LT are reading Middlemarch, so I clicked over to the book page and read about it. How does it compare to Tess of the d'Urbervilles? The book description made me think of both Tess and Vanity Fair.
BTW... I figured since everyone's reading it, I have to, so I put it on ... > I'm with you on Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I think it was the only book I didn't finish for my high school English class. I got as far as Angel's rejection after she was trying to be completely truthful and threw it across the room. Of course, modern advise columnists would probably have ... I have a lasting dislike of Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I read it for my A Levels and absolutely hated it and the way Thomas Hardy painstakingly described every blade of grass under a cow's feet (and there were many cows).
I also disliked Tess as a protagonist. I think she was such a ... ... Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Bleak House by Charles Dickens Without any hesitation: Tess of the d'Ubervilles and it was for class, so I had to read the whole thing. It was definitely one of those moments, when I finished it, where I wanted to throw the book across the room. I enjoyed Tess of the D'Ubervilles as well! I am reading Tess of the D'ubervilles which is very good, wouldnt really expect anything less! ... gonna make mine a book-to-book as well. Right now I'm reading Atonement and I'd have to say, If you like that you'd love Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It feels so much like Tess... McEwan feels the need to describe every blade of grass and lichen on a fountain, which is soo Hardy. ... was a very descriptive and emotional tale of a sheltered young woman and her relationships with two men. Reminiscent of Tess of the d'Urbevilles. A Virago Modern Classic
Recommended ... Non-fiction;
Judging Dev
Kings of September
Musicophilia
Every Single Ball
Recommendations;
Anna Karenina
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Lanark
Books not originally written in English;
The Tain
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Detection Novels;
Halloween Party ... ... Austen
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Complete Oscar Wilde
C.S. Lewis For the Third Millenium by Peter Kreeft
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Yay for used book stores! :D ... promising actually...a lampoon of the rural English novel. Should do nicely after reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I'm rereading two books from the list for class next week, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (yes its depressing, but its a fantastic book) and Confessions and Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (19th century Scottish Gothic-ish novel critiquing radical Calvinism, quite ... ... England by John Dover Wilson
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Hi ... ... drivelling, whiny, spoiled brat seriously in need of a board meeting in the bathroom, IF ya know what I mean.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is another book I read when I was a teen, probably around 16, and loved. I thought it terribly romantic and looked at the world through it. I ... ... left out some great books, however:
1. Anna Karenina
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
3. A Farewell to Arms
4. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
t5. The Painted Veil
t5. Swann's Way
Honorable Mention
Atonement
Les Miserables
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ... pretty cool and a real quick read, but not really anything thats going to stay with me. This week I'm supposed to reread Tess of the D'Urbervilles, which I loved when I read it last year, but since I've read it so recently I might spend the time on something else. My theme is women and beauty (because I am so lovely!), so feel free.
Adam Bede and Tess of the D'urbervilles would make great "classics" on the women and religion/spirituality theme. Ditto the memoirs of Lady Murasaki or Pearl Buck's The Pavilion of Women. ... Jane Gardham
10. Mao's Last Dancer: Li Cunxin
11. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox: Maggie O'Farrell
12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy
Of the above, I really enjoyed The Kite Runner and Mao's Last Dancer. Although only one was non-fiction, both were ... ...
With the first book of the month under my belt I have now read at least one book from each of my 8 categories - yay!
12. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Assigned category: (3) Books first published prior to 1950 (1/8)
Could have been categorised as: (1) 1001 Books...
13. Th ... ... though, was that I read it when I was about 15 or 16, and I actually BELEIVED crap like that could really happen. I read Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Pride and Prejudice, and Madame Bovary all around the same time as JE, and was really screwed-up for the next ten years. Reality can be ... ... times now, and have yet to get to the alternate world.
I dislike anything Hemingway. He's wordy and boring. I liked Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but it was definately a forced effort. She is not for the faint of heart or narcoleptic. Not counting children's books, so far I've read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and I'm currently reading Annie Freeman's Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. My class started with Frankenstein and Oliver Twist, and we've still to read Adam Bede by George Eliot, Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy, She by H. Rider Haggard, The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. ... ... in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
8. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Books that were replaced on the list
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Saturday by Ian McEwan ... the call
So I sprayed it right on to your wall:
THY DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT'
Which any Hardy fan will recognise from Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Another HMHB song opens with the line: 'My hands are stained with thistle-milk' ... reading classics? If so what are some of your favorites?
I've always loved Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Native Son and Cry, the Beloved Country.
These are only five, but I love many, many more. I like the characters in these books and the ... ... 'the fallen woman' in 19th century literature. Seems everyone had something to say on the subject. There was, of course, Tess of the D'urbervilles by Hardy, No Name by Wilkie Collins, and Adam Bede by George Eliot (now wouldn't this be an interesting group of books for a book group to ... ... as if it were not important. Austen and Hardy show us how a well-crafted plot can make a novel more literary, not less. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the Hardy novel many people were forced to read in school; I don't think it's necessarily his best, and I find it very depressing, though it's ... I read 13 this year. Here are my top 5 (some of which I see others have also loved):
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird (re-read)
Cloud Atlas
The Grapes of Wrath
Sense and Sensibility I thoroughly enjoyed A Thousand Splendid Suns. A surprise close second for me was Tess of the D'Urbervilles. ... -- The Three Musketeers
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
Robert Frost -- a pretty good bit of his poetry
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, short stories
O. Henry -- short stories
Baroness Orczy -- The Sca ... I finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles on Thursday, and just loved it. I'm now reading The Way the Crow Flies. I enjoyed another book by MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees, so when I found this one at a library book sale a few months ago, I snapped it up. It's a long book (800 pages!) so it will ... ... The Mayor of Casterbridge, for instance, is basically a Greek tragedy with a corn and feed merchant as protagonist. Tess of the d'Urbervilles is the same thing with a milkmaid; Far from the madding crowd the same thing with a shepherd, etc. If the language and the obsession with ... I finished Wide Sargasso Sea, which I thought was just OK. I'm now reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Not too far in yet, but I am finding it easier going than expected. I've not read Thomas Hardy before. I finished Wide Sargasso Sea, which I thought was just OK. I'm now reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Not too far in yet, but I am finding it easier going than expected. ... (I try to alternate genres a bit and have been heavy on the crime, thriller, mystery category lately). I think I'll try Tess of D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. ... Sargasso Sea - review, OK but not as good as I'd hoped.
63. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - review, truly wonderful!! ... the face of a crisis'.
Now this may have been based on the 'classics' I had to read for school - Catcher in the Rye, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, etc. But I have tried reading mainstream fiction and disliked everything I've tried (and I have only recently developed the ability to stop ... ... by Vilhelm Moberg
Cold Comfort Farm
The Go-Between
The Grass is Singing
The Rainbow
The Tree of Man
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Far from the Madding Crowd
La terre
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
Lark Rise to Candleford : A Trilogy
A Thousand Acres
Ea ... ... at the time I read Shadow Lord I was reading _every_ ST novel as it came out!) and still totally fails. So I hate Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Their Eyes Were Watching God and many others...but I wouldn't consider them bad.
Oh, and I read the first Harry Potter book and never ... ... mentioned so far, i've really enjoyed some of the lighter fare:
The Bonfire of the Vanities
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The Prince and the Pauper
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and In Cold Blood are also quite good.
i'm debating picking up Dangerous Li ... ... of Dr. Moreau by H G Wells
5. The Time Machine by H G Wells
6. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
7. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
9. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Coll ... ... evil and for his friends.
Find Me, Judas Child and Dead Famous by Carol O'Connell have also gotten me good.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles. ... back to.
If you're prepared to go back a couple of decades, Thomas Hardy is agrarian fiction: especially Tess of the d'Urbervilles (self-destructive female protagonist but very good on the changes in dairy farming due to the railways) and Far from the madding crowd (indecisiv ... ... So, all of Margaret Atwood's fiction would be "FIC ATWOOD." And The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D'Urbervilles would both be listed under "FIC HARDY" -- as would Thomas Hardy's other books.
The other thing BPL does is label all its ... ... Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
Dr No by Ian Fleming
Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen
The Book of Not:Stopping the Time by Tsitsi Dangarembga ... so they will be able to recognize something good when they find it. On the top of my worst list from high school days is Tess of the D'Urbervilles closely followed by Moby Dick and The Catcher in the Rye. Tess of the D'Urbervilles sticks out in my mind. I got halfway through, thanks to the nice desciptive writing, but the utter dryness won out.
The nice thing about this book-bashing is finding out you're not alone in hating a particular novel, especially is it's much-loved or a classic. So ... ... some of my all-time favorite books this year -- Mill on the Floss, Name of the Rose, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Historian.
I am impressed with the number of books you've read so far. How do you find time to do anything else?? I am very jealous! Just to confuse everyone :-)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Under Milk Wood : a play for voices by Dylan Thomas
Mad cows by Kathy Lette
An ice-cream war by William Boyd
Wallace & Gromit Cheese Lover's Yearbook by Geoff Tibballs
I got two new books over the weekend:
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 49. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
50. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Really looking forward to July 21st now that I've refreshed my memory as to the Harry Potter series. The sixth one isn't my favorite, but it isn't my least favorite either, so I ... ... and really liked it. Unfortunately, I was the only one in the class who did. I hope you like it too!
I'm just starting Tess of the d'Urbervilles and realizing how much I love Hardy's writing style. I really loved Far from the Madding Crowd and I'm glad I can now get into his work. I'm ... "And you say your people have lost their horse?"
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. ... desk and nightstand. Sometimes I meander through a variety of subjects as the fancy strikes. Lately I've read Jane Eyre, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America, and now The Civil War: A Narrative. Other times I work my way methodically through a subject or ... ... binge. Two Janet Evanovich books arrived the other day. Today I received:
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
These are two of my choices for a classics reading challenge beginning in July ... and are on the "1001 books to read before ... ... n
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Champion - Elizabeth Chadwick
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
I have no restraint. =( ... century romanticism would include Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, The Mayor of Casterbridge or Jude the Obscure or Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
For a take on American classics try Twain or a couple of magnificent short story writers O. Henry and Bret Harte ... ... of posts, people have covered almost all the books I've ever really disliked (a long list, at the top of which would be Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Pearl, and Crime and Punishment), but it appears my most hated book of all time has gone unmentioned. It's A Death in the Family by Ja ... ... Written" collection by The Easton Press. They ship one classic book a month. I finished Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, and I am working on Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence right now. Sophie's Choice by William Styron - Sophie's Choice
Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally - Schindler's List
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Tess
Restoration by Rose Tremain - Restoration ... : Out of Sheer Rage (r) NF
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42. Michael Waterman : Introduction to Computational Biology (r) ... ... experience. House on Mango Street was a joke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was a bore just like The Glass Menagerie. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was terribly depressing but very true. The Message in Black Boy pissed me off and A Raison in the Sun was pointless.
But nevertheless I am ... The first middle eastern cookbook I bought is still one that I go back to: Tess Mallos The Complete Middle East Cookbook (The Complete Middle East Cookbook by Tess Mallos. Hardcover, 1995. ISBN 1898697361 - since the touchstones SUCK right now :( ). If you are looking for a basic book that ... Loved Tess, but hated Jude the Obscure. There was a moment when I threw the book across the room, I was so mad at it and its fatalism.
I think Shakespeare on the page is so different than Shakespeare on-stage, they're not even the same experience at all. I have loved both. In her fine new biography Thomas Hardy, Claire Tomalin points out that TH's most famous novel Jude the Obscure was found intensely shocking when it first appeared in Nov. 1895, and even today, she says "reading Jude is like being hit in the face over and over again". Well, so far I'v ... ... in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976 and am enjoying it. It's by Barney Hoskyns.
#19: Have reserved Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy as, like yourself, have been an admirer of Hardy for many years. Going to Dorset this year on hols so shall visit his place.
(touchstone trouble again) Hey Sean L, I thought Claire Tomalin's Thomas Hardy biography was just superb. I knew little of Hardy's origins and life, nor of the fact of his completely eschewing fiction for poetry after Jude the Obscure, so Tomalin's book was a revelation on several levels. I've read several of Hardy' ... ... not a dud in this whole bunch and it's highly recommended stuff.
I just started Claire Tomalin's new biography Thomas Hardy and have already noticed that she seems to be highlighting Hardy's poetry as opposed to his novels, which is fine, a bit of a refreshing approach too I think, ... Another vote against Tess of the D'Urbervilles. But then, I probably did start it too young. Also, I blame myself for not having the patience for descriptive writing.
I would also like to stand up for Tolkien. It is not some lengthy made up fantasy, nor (as Tolkien wrote himself) is it ... #1: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (how original!)
#100: Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy (1762 users)
10% (134 of 1345 books): Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (1385 users)
50% (#674): Indecision: A Novel by Benjamin Kunkel (174 users) ... ... because it's assumed that everyone knows the plot, ending, and major themes and they often give everything away. It ruined Tess of the D'ubervilles *SPOILER* when I found out by reading a footnote from the third chapter that she died in the end.
Anyway, I didn't know that like Ms. Gaskell ... ... A Tale of Two Cities and I adore it. But then, I like anything that has to do with the French Revolution. I never read Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but I listened to most of it on audiotape and thought it was dreadful. Another classic I couldn't stand was The Diary of Anne Frank. I couldn't ... ... 19th century 'lost-love' book. After reading sooo many ill-fated stories ending horribly like Anna Karenina (suicide) or Tess of the d'Urbervilles (death sentence), it was so refreshing to see a book portray it more realistically. Yes, some people kill themselves or someone else when their ... ... The Taming of the Shrew, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Great Expectations, collected poems of Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles, and The Winter's Tale. ... How is it different from the others?
It seems to work really well, whatever it does (although it is funny I should read Tess of the D'Urbervilles because I own Life with Jeeves and Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?). For starters I'd have to say both Tess of the D'Urbervilles and To Kill a Mockingbird were wonderful.
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