“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” Chapter 1: The Folly of Youth The novel opens with Michael Henchard, a young hay-trusser, drunkenly […]
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Far from the Madding Crowd
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.” Chapter 1: The Shepherd Meets a Stranger […]
English literature
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
“Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.” Phase the First: The Maiden Tess Durbeyfield, a poor country […]