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Photographic portrait, circa 1910–1915Bain News Service; restored and cropped reproduction · Public domain

Thomas Hardy

Hardy’s preface and narrator ask how fiction and another person’s experience are judged. Read the defence of the novel separately from the narrator’s observation about Tess and Angel, without turning suffering into a lesson someone needs.

1840 AD – 1928 AD · 199 collected ↗