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The Immortals
David Duncan
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"How can you say that? During the next hundred years a thousand other factors can enter in."
"But the Y Hormone bears an essential relationship to the whole. Sit down and stop waving your arms. I'm going to see if we can get into the school."
Peccary sat down, seething.
It had been a mistake to bring his Y Hormone to Staghorn. It was simply that he'd been thinking of himself as such a benefactor to the human race that he couldn't wait to see a sample of the bright future he intended to create.
"Think of it, Staghorn!" he'd said happily, earlier in the evening. "The phrase 'art is long and time is fleeting' won't mean anything any more! Artists will have hundreds of years to paint their pictures. Think of the books that will be written, the music that will be composed, the magnificent cities that wi. . . Read More
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there will probably be spoilers here. i will possibly rant. if you don't know what happens in tess, it is better not to read this review, although, frankly, to my way of thinking, hardy has so many superior novels, stories, poems, that you would be better served just avoiding this one and going on t
That's it there needs to be a new genre - Dark Classics! Going so much against the grain of the times, this is the story of Tess Durbeyfield trying to live her life in 19th century England; eldest daughter to aspirational educated rural working class parents with their sights on their wealthier 'fam
A beautiful, compelling, at times frustrating story. Hardy tackles taboos and consequences in the Victorian era. I admire the symbolism and far-reaching themes.
4.5 stars rounded up to 5.
“Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?"
"Yes."
"All like ours?"
"I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree. Most of them splendid and sound - a few blighted."
"Which do we live on - a splendid one or a blighted one?"
"A blighted one.”
Tess of the D’Ur
A truly tragic tale of the suffocating, detrimental Victorian morality in its most excessive form, and a pertinent read on International Women's Day. Hardy's use of language and the pace of the novel were enrapturing.