I'm actually not sure if I should recommend that or not.
Reading Jude is an incredibly emotionally harrowing experience, and one I'm still kind of proud to have ground my way through. On the one hand, to be able to evoke so much emotion is pretty impressive for any piece of literature ... on the other hand, do you really want to subject yourself to so much anguish? :-P
What's the blue book with no dustcover (upper right)?
@Randal'Thor Hmm. Books don't usually get me emotional... I get amused, but I haven't found anything (fiction, non fiction is a different matter) that has made me cry or anything yet.
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I have been trying to remember a story I heard some time ago.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the name of the story.
I know very little of it's origin. I'm not sure if it was originally a book and the narrative and details provided are very vague so I will preemptively apologize.
I ha...
I started reading Jude the Obscure. Let's see how it goes.
I've got another question about the passage I just asked about that @Fabjaja might be interested in ;). I plan to ask it tomorrow. Or after 2AM my time.
My copies of Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge both have lots of endnotes to explain all the things which might have been clearer to contemporary readers than to us.
You know Hardy writes tragedies, so you think about how everything is likely to go wrong in any way it can ... and then what actually happens is way worse than anything you could have imagined.
In the first chapter of Jude the Obscure, we see this line:
Above all, the original church, hump-backed, wood-turreted, and quaintly hipped, had been taken down, and either cracked up into heaps of road-metal in the lane, or utilized as pig-sty walls, garden seats, guard-stones to fences, and...
@Ash Oh sure... I'm not going IPS crazy looking for answers in comments here... But I don't think anyone will actually complain if I delete a few comments that should be answers now and then ;)
From the scene early on in Atlas Shrugged where Dagny Taggart told her brother Jim that she had canceled his order with Associated Steel in favor of purchasing Rearden Metal track instead:
[Dagny] had turned to go, when [Jim] spoke again - and what he said seemed bewilderingly irrelevant. "Th...
I have been trying to remember a story I heard some time ago.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the name of the story.
I know very little of it's origin. I'm not sure if it was originally a book and the narrative and details provided are very vague so I will preemptively apologize.
I ha...
In the first chapter of Jude the Obscure, we see this line:
Above all, the original church, hump-backed, wood-turreted, and quaintly hipped, had been taken down, and either cracked up into heaps of road-metal in the lane, or utilized as pig-sty walls, garden seats, guard-stones to fences, and...
From the scene early on in Atlas Shrugged where Dagny Taggart told her brother Jim that she had canceled his order with Associated Steel in favor of purchasing Rearden Metal track instead:
[Dagny] had turned to go, when [Jim] spoke again - and what he said seemed bewilderingly irrelevant. "Th...
