/lit/ - Literature

Alright /lit/, here's a difficult one since I doubt any of you have read it. It's a classic short story from the 1800's.
>be me
>newly appointed judge of a hundred in Jutland
>meet local priest and his daughter
>beautiful lass
>fall in love and get married
>happiest man in the world
>some time later everything goes wrong
>her dad, the priest, apparently whacked one of his servants with a shovel
>and the servant just disappeared, presumed dead
>lots of people come out and affirm that he really did hit the servant
>one guy even claims he buried the body in the yard
>everyone, me included, rush to the vicar's house
>dig around, finally find a corpse buried in the yard, same clothes as the servant who disappeared
>the penalty for murder is death
>priest and father-in-law swears by all that is holy that he didn't do it
>wife begs me to let him go or give her time to investigate
>im heartbroken
>i give them some time, but nothing turns up, and i sentence the priest to death
>after his death, my wife leaves me never to return
>i become bedridden with shame, disbelief and heartbreak
>i never find out what really happened

>author bashes you for reading his massproduced schlock instead of something good

>>17832205
>tfw you have to live in the most creatively sterile era of all time
>and all the good stuff that had already been written is now rewritten and repurposed to make propaganda

>>17488858
>>17488875
>when u see some american dude with a SEA girlfriend and u know it's because he couldn't get any from his own race

>mfw I can't derive any joy from parties unless it's with a small group of close friends
How fucked am I