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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
     
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
(1891) a novel by Thomas Hardy about a young woman who is persuaded by a man from a higher social class to have sex with him. He treats her very badly and she finally kills him and is hanged for his murder.
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