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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

Robert McCrum introduces the series

 

 

Robert McCrum

Mon 7 Apr 2014 07.05 BST