Status Updates From Tess von d'Urbervilles

super excited to reread this after 3 years. i’ve read almost all of hardy’s other novels since first reading tess, and in my head it’s still my favorite, so i’m looking forward to revisiting it now with more perspective

The more I think about the plot of this book, the more absolutely insane it feels, wow

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“Inside this exterior, over which the eye might have roved as over a thing scarcely percipient, almost inorganic, there was the record of a pulsing life which had learnt too well, for its years, of the dust and ashes of things, of the cruelty of lust and the fragility of love.”