Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

De onschuldige jonge Tess wordt het slachtoffer van de eerzucht van haar ouders en van de conventionele moraal. Met zwart-witfoto's, opdrachten en cd's. Vanaf ca. 17 jaar.

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Engels | 136 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2008

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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