Jude the Obscure: The Last Book of Thomas Hardy's I Must Read Before I Die?⛪💌📚

As fate would have it, I started reading Thomas Hardy's last novel (or listening to it being read to me) 'Jude the Obscure' on January 11th, 2024, which I didn't realize at the time I started reading it was the anniversary of Hardy's passing.

'Jude the Obscure' is one of them

I also watched on Thursday my DVD of Roman Polanski's 'Tess', based on the Hardy book 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', which I had already read and wrote about in this old post -

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Polanski even dedicated 'Tess' to his late wife Sharon Tate I noticed in the opening credits of the film.

Now I want to see the film 'Jude' made by Michael Winterbottom in 1996, before I put Hardy's work behind me.

Jude (1996)

And while Paul McCartney claims he wrote 'Hey Jude' for Julian and/or John Lennon, I can't help but think Paul had read Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure' novel and used the themes for that song maybe and obscured the fact?-)

The Beatles: Hey Jude Music Video (1968)

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