![]() ![]() ![]() It ends badly for all, especially the children. Eventually the cousins become a miserably unhappy couple, struggling to survive with too many mouths to feed. Next he falls for his ethereal and married cousin Sue Bridehead. His marriage to the earthy Arabella ends when he fails to properly slaughter a pig. Jude Fawley, stonemason, wants to be a university man. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (Dover, $5). The big question: Did Cathy and Heathcliff actually have sex? Rich, innocent Edgar Linton pays the price for putting himself in the line of fire between the famously passionate Catherine Earnshaw and her beloved Heathcliff, the revenge-driven prototype of the romantic hero. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Penguin, $7). Below, she recommends six other novels about doomed marriages. Valerie Martin is the author of eight novels, including the Orange Prize winner Property and last year’s Trespass, now available in paperback. ![]()
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