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Title: The Hand of Ethelberta
Author: Thomas Hardy
Release Date: October 28, 2004 [eBook #3469]
Language: English
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THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA--A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS
by Thomas Hardy.

"Vitae post-scenia celant."--Lucretius.


PREFACE

This somewhat frivolous narrative was produced as an interlude between
stories of a more sober design, and it was given the sub-title of a
comedy to indicate--though not quite accurately--the aim of the
performance. A high degree of probability was not attempted in the
arrangement of the incidents, and there was expected of the reader a
certain lightness of mood, which should inform him with a good-natured
willingness to accept the production in the spirit in which it was
offered.
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