Tess of the D'Urbervilles Memoir_Gift_Guide But as the family saga

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles Memoir_Gift_Guide But as the family saga''The greatest tragic writer among the English novelists'' Virginia Woolf With its depiction of the wronged ''pure woman'' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D''Urbervilles is one of the most moving and poetic of Hardy''s novels. When its heroine, Tess Durbeyfield, is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D''Urbervilles, meeting her ''cousin'' Alec proves to be her downfall. A very different man,