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你好,我叫 Finn,我来帮你读懂这本书。
来了,像给10岁的你讲的那样:
苔丝是个贫穷的乡下姑娘，她的家人发现他们是一个富裕家族的远亲，而这个发现一步步毁了她的人生。她被男人伤害，被所有人评判，却仍然一边工作一边怀抱希望。Hardy 写这本书就是要让读者对这个惩罚错人的世界感到愤怒，而它至今依然奏效。
整本书用英文阅读。这里是所有章节:
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.