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Originally Posted by smartie  Oh, very easily, I fear. The novels are all so miserable.  I never got away with Dickens, either, while I'm in confessional mode. And me an English graduate, too  |
Dickens is just plain tedious but Hardy is readable and not
all of them are depressing - the problem is that anyone getting through Jude the Obscure and Tess of the d'Urbevilles isn't going to be inclined to search for the cheerful ones!
