有谁知道苔丝的英文简介

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有谁知道苔丝的英文简介

有谁知道苔丝的英文简介
有谁知道苔丝的英文简介

有谁知道苔丝的英文简介
In the Victorian period,a rural clergyman in England tells Durbeyfield,a simple farmer,that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family,now extinct; or maybe not.Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Urberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away.Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful cousin,and he seduces her with strawberries and roses.But Alec is no relation to Tess; he has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them.Alec falls in love with Tess,seduces/rapes her,and she leaves,pregnant; back at home,the baby dies.Some time later,Tess begins work as a milkmaid,and there she meets her true love Angel Clare.Angel believes her completely innocent.They fall in love,but Angel does not learn of her previous relationship with Alec until their wedding night,and rejects her.Deserted by her husband,Tess meets Alec again,and poverty forces her to resume their relationship.Angel returns from travelling abroad,remorseful at his treatment of Tess,but finds her with Alec.Tess murders Alec in order to run away with Angel.They spend one night of happiness together,before she is arrested.