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Title Statement | Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Thomas Hardy ; retold by Anna Trewin ; illustrated by Isabella Grott ; series editor, Sorrell Pitts. |
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Series | Penguin readers |
Author | Trewin, Anna |
Additional Contributors | Grott, Isabella,1985- |
Pitts, Sorrel | |
Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928 | |
Publication | London: Penguin Books,2022. |
Edition | Penguin readers edition. |
Extent of Item | 112 pages |
ISBN | 9780241542590 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr06607340 |
General Notes | CEFR level B1+; 18,000-22,000 story word count; 2,000 headwords. |
Summary | When Jack and Joan Durbeyfield learn that their ancestors were the D'Urbervilles - a rich and well-known family - they hope it will make their lives better. They send their eldest daughter, Tess, to introduce herself to some "relatives". There, Tess meets Alec d'Urberbille and the event that follows changes her life forever. |
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By Topic | Readers (Adult) |
English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers | |
Country life--Fiction--England--Wessex | |
Seduction--Fiction | |
Women household employees--Fiction | |
Young women--Fiction--England | |
By Location | England--Fiction--Social life and customs--19th century |
By Genre | Adaptations |
High interest-low vocabulary books | |
Historical | |
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