Jude the Obscure
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Even the most idealistic robot tutors may want to keep their charges away from King Lear or Jude the Obscure.
From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2017
There was this wonderful moment a year-and-a-half ago when I realized I had dismissed Hardy because I’d had a traumatic experience as a college freshman with Jude the Obscure.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2016
"The truly great novels, the kind of Bleak House novels, or Jude the Obscure, or Middlemarch, these are not novels about travel."
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2014
Then it's a circular route back along the canal to the Victorian suburb of Jericho, where the industrial, brooding, Jude the Obscure atmosphere complements the grandeur of medieval Oxford.
From Time • Mar. 5, 2012
To say nothing of analogies of detail between Little Eyolf and Jude the Obscure, there is this radical analogy, that they are both utterances of a profound pessimism, both indictments of Nature.
From Little Eyolf by Archer, William
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