| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Reading it again another ten years further on I better understood the theatricality of it - it should be read in some ways like the old ballads with which Hardy was very familiar, with their highly exaggerated representations of good and evil - but the magic had gone.Maybe the key is that Tess is a book written by an emotional adolescent - Hardy was a writer who arguably never really grew up, and
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