Books in which things end badly

Richard Gwyn: books in which things end badly
"Our predilection for the sad ending can be traced to the stories of Greek mythology and (as I point out in my first choice, below) to the Bible, in which I read Christ's torture and execution as an allegory of human suffering in general.

The piece was originally going to be called 10 books with a bad ending until it occurred to me that a 'bad' ending could either be one of catastrophe and malevolence, or else one that is ill-conceived or poorly-written. For the purposes of this list, of course, I meant the former, and consequently changed the title to avoid an (admittedly rather satisfying) ambiguity.' "

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