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 best-known example is the hero of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2015
"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
The fault that marred the splendid novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles ruined Jude the Obscure.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
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