Jude the Obscure
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
I wondered if this was connected to his love of Hardy; he is reputed to have read Jude the Obscure several times as a teenager.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2010
The unworthiness of the British and American nations to have artists born to them was never more shamefully manifested than by the reception accorded thirty years ago to Hardy's "Jude, the Obscure."
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
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