A ne\'er-do-well exploits his gentle daughter\'s beauty for social advancement in this masterpiece of tragic fiction. Hardy\'s 1891 novel defied convention to focus on the rural lower class for a frank treatment of sexuality and religion. Then and now, his sympathetic portrait of a victim of Victorian hypocrisy offers compelling reading.
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