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Currently I'm reading
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. My grandfather left me a large box of classics when he died, and since that was almost ten years ago I decided I better make a start. A lot of them I've already read, but there are about 20 or so in the box that I haven't, so I'm set for a while. I'm enjoying it a lot.
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From the blurb:
A haunting love story, Jude is the most outspoken, the most powerful and the most despairing of Thomas Hardy's creations.
Jude Fawley, the stone-mason, whose academic ambitions are thwarted by poverty and the indifference of the authorities at Christminster, appears to find fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both of them have fled from previous marriages, and together they share a 'two-in-oneness' rarely matched. Ironically, when tradgedy strikes it is Sue, the modern, emancipated thinker - the last and greatest of Hardy's heroines, ranking with Emma Bovary and Anna Karenin - who is unequal to the challenge.
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