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The aim of the article is to indicate that Maria Rodziewiczówna’s 1903 novel Wrzos bears some resemblance to Thomas Hardy’s 1891 novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles in terms of the characters, plot construction and literary themes. The intertextual parallels between the two works, along with the likelihood of a direct borrowing of the aforementioned elements, constitute the subject of this study.