I’m not sure that Jude needs much of an introduction. The novel relates in bleak detail the life of Jude. Unhappy marriages, academic ambition thwarted, a disastrously unhealthy life as a stone mason, child suicide, infanticide and miscarriage. I hadn’t read the book before but I was expecting all of those things, and I had a vague mental image of the Job of biblical fame.
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