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こんにちは、Finnです。この本を理解するお手伝いをします。
10歳の子に説明するように言うと、こうなります：
Tess は貧しい田舎の娘で、家族が裕福な家系の遠い親戚だと知ったことがきっかけで、彼女の人生は段階的に壊れていきます。男性たちにひどい目に遭わされ、みんなに裁かれながらも、彼女は働き続け、希望を持ち続けます。Hardy は、間違った人が罰せられる世界への怒りを読者に感じさせるためにこの本を書き、今でもその効果はあります。
本の全文は英語で読みます。すべての章はこちらです：
The main portion of the following story appeared—with slight modifications—in The Graphic newspaper; other chapters, more especially addressed to adult readers, in the Fortnightly Review and the National Observer, as episodic sketches. My thanks are tendered to the editors and proprietors of those periodicals for enabling me now to piece the trunk and limbs of the novel together, and print it complete, as originally written two years ago.
I will just add that the story is sent out in all sincerity of purpose, as an attempt to give artistic form to a true sequence of things; and in respect of the book’s opinions and sentiments, I would ask any too genteel reader, who cannot endure to have said what everybody nowadays thinks and feels, to remember a well-worn sentence of St. Jerome’s: If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come than that the truth be concealed.
T. H.
November 1891.