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Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel about a poor young woman named
Tess Durbeyfield whose father sends her to work for the rich
Stoke-d'Urberville family, to whom he mistakenly believes they are
related.
Alec Stoke-d'Urberville rapes Tess. She returns home, where she gives
birth to a child who soon dies. Tess becomes a milkmaid at the
Talbothays Dairy, where she falls in love with Angel Clare, a young
intellectual she met years before. On their wedding night, Angel learns
about Tess's past and abandons her. Angel leaves for Brazil, then
returns to find that Tess has killed Alec. Tess is arrested and hanged.