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Thomas Hardy in 1914: Jude the Obscure was his last novel. Photograph: EO Hoppe/Corbis
The 100 best novelsThomas Hardy
The 100 best novels: No 29 – Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (1895)
Hardy exposed his deepest feelings in this bleak, angry novel and, stung by the hostile response, he never wrote another
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