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안녕하세요, 저는 Finn입니다. 이 책을 이해할 수 있도록 도와드릴게요.
10살 아이에게 설명하듯 말하면 이렇습니다:
Tess는 가난한 시골 소녀인데, 가족이 부유한 집안과 먼 친척이라는 걸 알게 되면서 그 발견이 그녀의 삶을 단계마다 망가뜨려요. 남들에게 상처받고 모두에게 판단받으면서도 Tess는 계속 일하고 희망해요. Hardy는 잘못한 사람을 벌하는 세상에 독자들이 화를 내게 하려고 이 책을 썼고, 지금도 그 효과가 있어요.
책 전체는 영어로 읽습니다. 모든 장은 여기 있습니다:
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.