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Jude the Obscure

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.


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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

It is absurd to turn away from these books, books like Jude the Obscure and the Well-Beloved.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

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