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∗ “Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.” this is quoted from - Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
- "Tess of the d’Urbervilles" (1891) is considered as one of the finest novels of Thomas Hardy.
- এটির সাবটাইটেল ছিল "A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented" কারণ Hardy মনে করেছিলেন যে এর নায়িকা কঠোর Victorian moral code এর শিকার ছিল।
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles is famous for its heroine as for its notoriously tragic plot.

Character List:
• Tess Durbeyfield - The novel’s protagonist,
• Angel Clare,
• Alec d’Urberville,
• Mr. John Durbeyfield,
• Mrs. Joan Durbeyfield - Tess’s mother,
• Mrs. d’Urberville.

⇒ Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) a British writer, novelist and poet.
⇒ তিনি Victorian Period এর লেখক ছিলেন।

Source: Britannica.com and Sparknotes.com