Therese Raquin

Excerpt from Therese Raquin: A Realistic Novel

I had imagined in my simplicity that this novel might do without a preface. Being in the habit of saying aloud exactly what I think, of laying stress even upon the slightest details of what I write, I had hoped to have been understood and judged Without any preliminary explanation. It appears that I was mistaken.

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