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The novel tells the tragical life story of a beautiful country girl Tess Duebeyfield. Tess is the daughter of a poor villager. In her youth she is seduced by Alec D’Urbervilles, the son of a rich merchant who has bought his title into the class of gentry. Tess gives birth to an illegitimate child, thus scandalizing the narrow-minded people around her. So she leaves home and works at a distant farm as a dairymaid. There she meets Angel Clare, a clergyman’s son, who falls in love with her. On their wedding night, Tess confesses to Angel the affair of Alec. Angel, himself a sinner who has had some affair with a bad woman, casts her off and leaves for Brazil. After that her father dies and her family are threatened with starvat ion, so Tess is driven to accept Alec’s protection and lives with him. Clare, returning from Brazil and repentant of his harshness to Tess, finds her in such a situation. Maddened by this second wrong that has been done her by Alec, she murders him in a fit of despair. After hiding with Clare in a forest for a short time, Tess falls into the claws of law. She is arrested, tried and hanged.

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3.Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s masterpiece. It shows the life picture of up-class in 19 century. The novel describe the life of two girls, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley. They met at Miss Pinkerton’s School for young ladies and then graduated from this school. Amelia Sedley, a sheltered daughter of a rich merchant. To the contrary, Becky is a pretty clever and well-behaved girl. She tasted the taste of poverty, are determined to control their own destiny, out of trouble. Her first plan is attempting to mar ry Joseph Sedley, Amelia’s brother, but was foild by George Osborne, an admirer of Amelia. Then Rebecca takes a position as governess at Queen's Crawley, and marries Rawdon Crawley, second son of Sir Pitt Crawley. This make her loss the chance to marry with Pitt Crawley. Rawdon was an ignorant and self-indulgent man who didn't know Becky's well, then Becky became the mistress of Lord Steyne that is found by her husband finally. This is the plot about Becky. For Amelia, she married with Osborne who are flower-hearted later dies in a war. Ten years later, when the two women met again, Becky let Amelia know George's attempt of elopement and finally Amelia married William Dobbin who loved her all the time.

4. Pride and prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Pride and Prejudice mainly tells of the love story between a rich proud young man Darcy and the beautiful

and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet, one of the daughters in Bennet 's family. None of the daughters of Bennet family can inherit the estate of the family for it has been entailed upon the nearest male heir, William Collins. To compensate for it, Collins, considered to be a preposterous suitor, intends to choose Elizabeth as his wife. After Elizabeth rejects his proposal, another young man called Darcy, against whom Elizabeth has prejudice because she thinks that he has nothing but pride, proposes to her. Elizabeth rejects again. After many twists and turns, misunderstandings disappear and they are happily united. In the process of judging others, Elizabeth finds out something about herself: her blindness, prejudice and absurdity.

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