Round 10: Tossup 1

A man in this novel is reminded that “experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration” when considering the “ache of modernism” he saw in a character whose wedding (15[1])was ominously interrupted by a rooster. An “antiquary” named Parson Tringham (15[1])sets up this novel's plot (15[1])with the phrase “Good Night, Sir John.” This novel concludes as a (*) black flag symbolizing an execution is (10[1])witnessed by (10[1])Liza-Lu. (10[1])After her horse Prince dies, (10[1])a woman in this novel is forced to work for a man who later rapes her, impregnating her with a child named Sorrow. For 10 points, Angel Clare appears in what Thomas Hardy novel where the title character murders Alec at Stonehenge? ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Tess of the d’Urbervilles [or Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented]
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