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Unit nine.

Unit grammar check. Exercise two.

Tess.

A story of innocence and revenge.

Speaker 1: Who is the novel by?

Speaker 2: Tess of the D'Urbervilles was written by Thomas Hardy.

Speaker 1: When was it published?

Speaker 2: It was first published in eighteen ninety-one, but it was censored because it challenged the conventions of society.

Speaker 1: What's it about?

Speaker 2: It's about Tess Derby Fields, a country girl from a poor family. When she's seventeen years old, Tess is seduced by a man called Alec. She has a baby boy, but he dies when he's one week old. Later, Tess meets her true love, Angel, and they get married. But then Tess is abandoned by her husband, when he finds out that she had a baby.

Speaker 1: Does the story have a happy ending?

Speaker 2: Well, here's a clue. In the end, Alec is killed.

Speaker 1: Is the book still popular now?

Speaker 2: It is considered one of the classics of English literature, and it is often studied at school.