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• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part One (Chapter I – XI)Phase the First: The Maiden Chapter I On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Two (Chapter XII – XV)Phase the Second: Maiden No More Chapter XII The basket was heavy and the bundle was large, but she lugged them along like a person who did not find her especial burden in material things. [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Three (Chapter XVI – XXIV)Phase the Third: The Rally Chapter XVI On a thyme-scented, bird-hatching morning in May, between two and three years after the return from Trantridge—silent, reconstructive years for Tess Durbeyfield—she left her home for the second [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Four (Chapter XXV – XXXIV)Phase the Fourth: The Consequence Chapter XXV Clare, restless, went out into the dusk when evening drew on, she who had won him having retired to her chamber. The night was as sultry as the [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Five (Chapter XXXV – XLIV)Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays Chapter XXXV Her narrative ended; even its re-assertions and secondary explanations were done. Tess’s voice throughout had hardly risen higher than its opening tone; there had been no exculpatory [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Six (Chapter XLV – LII)Phase the Sixth: The Convert Chapter XLV Till this moment she had never seen or heard from d’Urberville since her departure from Trantridge. The rencounter came at a heavy moment, one of all moments calculated [...]
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles Main Text Part Seven (Chapter LIII – LIX)Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment Chapter LIII It was evening at Emminster Vicarage. The two customary candles were burning under their green shades in the Vicar’s study, but he had not been sitting there. Occasionally he [...]