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Jude the Obscure

American  

noun

  1. a novel (1895) by Thomas Hardy.


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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

Flushed with success, the Literary Class is expected next to tackle HARDY; Jude the Obscure and The Mystery of Edwin Drood being the first objectives.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 by Various

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