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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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]
- 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[Expand...]