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Classic fiction and drama · Secondary / sixth form

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

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Tess’s experience is shaped by economic vulnerability and unequal moral expectations. Attend to the narrator’s language, the changing rural settings and the gap between a character’s ideals and treatment of another person; mature themes require teacher-led selection and sensitive discussion.

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