The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles

I picked this up without knowing much about it other than that it was "a classic" with a famous film based on it. I think I enjoyed it all the more for not even knowing when it was written, as it took me a while to understand that the all-knowing Victorian narrator was not what he seemed. In fact this read as a swinging sixties take on Tess of the D'Urbervilles, with an unsettlingly uncertain ending. Fascinating stuff, with a lot of good material about Victorian ideas on science, progress, Darwinism, religion, sex, class, & the role of women - I found it impossible to put down, and read it in a day.