Jude the Obscure
Americannoun
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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
John Buchan believed Hugh Walpole's Rogue Herries – the first of an epic tetralogy charting the fortunes of a down-at-heel Cumberland dynasty – to be "the greatest English novel since Jude the Obscure".
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2013
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
There are many obvious likenesses between "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" and "Jennie Gerhardt" and again between "Jude the Obscure" and "Sister Carrie."
From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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