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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman
Author: Thomas Hardy
Release Date: February, 1994 [eBook #110] This edition 11 released June 17, 2005
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES
A Pure Woman
Faithfully presented by
THOMAS HARDY
Contents
Phase the First: The Maiden, I-XI
Phase the Second: Maiden No More, XII-XV
Phase the Third: The Rally, XVI-XXIV
Phase the Fourth: The Consequence, XXV-XXXIV
Phase the Fifth: The Woman Pays, XXXV-XLIV
Phase the Sixth: The Convert, XLV-LII
Phase the Seventh: Fulfilment, LIII-LIX
Phase the First: The Maiden
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, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line. He occ