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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
None
Victorian English; clean
Sexual Content
Barely any
Romantic content; Victorian treatment of infidelity and desire
Substance Use
None
Social drinking in period context
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of class mobility, self-denial, and the social machinery that crushes natural feeling
What this book is about
Giles Winterborne loves Grace Melbury, but Grace is being sent up in the world by her ambitious father. When Grace returns from school as a gentleman's daughter, the gap between her and Giles seems insurmountable — and it leads to a series of thwarted desires and quiet devastations. Hardy's 1887 novel is one of his most lyrical and bittersweet.
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