Excerpt from Tess of D'urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Faithfully Presented Lies in the very first principles, and it would be utterly hm possible to come to an understanding with them And again: As soon as I observe that any one, when judging of poetical representations, considers anything more ins portant than the inner Necessity and Truth, I have done with him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.