Goodreads asked Ross Howell Jr.:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Ross Howell Jr. Thomas Hardy's Wessex, the setting for "Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Return of the Native," "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," and "Jude the Obscure." I'd want to tend sheep, build haystacks, milk cows, gaze at a night sky brimming with fireflies and stars, as I did as a boy in the mountains of Virginia. And maybe there Hardy would whisper some secret to me about his mastery of landscape and character.

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