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I laid me down upon a bank,

Where Love lay sleeping;

I heard among the rushes dank

Weeping, weeping.

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verb

To howl.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Name: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Author: Thomas Hardy

by Thomas Hardy

A young country woman is exploited and cast out by society in Hardy's devastating critique of Victorian moral hypocrisy.

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148,475

Words

~11h read

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1Phase the First115m 2Phase the Second44m 3Phase the Third83m 4Phase the Fourth121m 5Phase the Fifth129m 6Phase the Sixth104m 7Phase the Seventh53m

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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