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Water Dancers
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Coates, Ta-Nehisi - Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Water Dancers / Ta-Nehisi Coates

London : Penguin Books Ltd, 2019

Abstract: Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is rebellion. But against whom? Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother black and enslaved. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents. Hiram fast becomes a highly skilled agent, retrieving the enslaved from the most dangerous circumstances and gradually learning to harness his power - but betrayals lurk everywhere. And eventually Hiram must risk everything to return to his father's plantation and free the friends he left behind.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Hardy, Thomas - Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy ; edited by Juliet Grindle and Simon Gatrell ; with a new introduction by Penny Boumelha ; notes by Nancy Barrineau

New ed

Oxford ; New York : Oxford university press, 2005

The worlds classics

Abstract: Romanzo di forte impatto emotivo, definito a più riprese "vile", "pieno di falsità", ma anche esaltato come il "più potente tra i romanzi pubblicati dall'autore", Tess ha, fin dal suo apparire, diviso critica e lettori e allarmato schiere di bigotti e moralisti che inorridivano all'idea di una storia che colpiva al cuore la morale vittoriana. In Tess il vettore del conflitto attraversa ogni pagina del libro, che affronta, senza alcun falso pudore, temi scabrosi e audaci. L'immagine che apre il romanzo è quella di un uomo che incede malfermo lungo una strada; si tratta di John Durbeyfield, il padre di Tess, che apprende delle proprie presunte origini nobiliari dal parroco Tringham, incontrato quasi per caso. La rivelazione alimenta la vanità e l'orgoglio della povera famiglia che costringe la ragazza a recarsi dai ricchi d'Urberville, in un ridicolo e improbabile tentativo di "reclamare la parentela", intraprendendo così il primo viaggio che la condurrà a incontrare Alec, il suo seduttore. Questo fatto accelera gli avvenimenti dell'intreccio e scatena una serie di eventi che alla fine travolgerà la misera Tess.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Hardy, Thomas

Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Tim Dolin ; with an introduction by Margaret R. Higonnet

Reprinted with updated further reading

London : Penguin Books, 2003

Penguin classics

Abstract: Novel by Thomas Hardy, first published serially in bowdlerized form in the Graphic (July-December 1891) and in its entirety in book form (three volumes) the same year. It was subtitled A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented because Hardy felt that its heroine was a virtuous victim of a rigid Victorian moral code. Now considered Hardy's masterwork, it departed from conventional Victorian fiction in its focus on the rural lower class and in its open treatment of sexuality and religion. After her impoverished family learns of its noble lineage, naive Tess Durbeyfield is sent to make an appeal to a nearby wealthy family who bear the ancestral name d'Urberville. Tess is seduced by dissolute Alec d'Urberville and secretly bears a child, Sorrow, who dies in infancy. Later working as a dairymaid she meets and marries Angel Clare, an idealistic gentleman who rejects Tess after learning of her past on their wedding night. Emotionally bereft and financially impoverished, Tess is trapped by necessity into giving in once again to d'Urberville, but she murders him when Angel returns. After a few days with Angel, Tess is arrested and executed.

Pride and prejudice
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Austen, Jane

Pride and prejudice ; Sense and sensibility ; Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen

London : Octopus Books, 1983