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Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure has a (deserved) reputation as a difficult, anti-marriage novel. Like all of the other Hardy novels I've read, lives spin out of control and no one finds happiness. Jude's sin, as I saw it, was that he wanted what he couldn't have. As a child, Jude built up a dream to be a scholar in Christminster, a city based on Oxford and Cambridge. Jude taught himself Latin and Greek and read the classics. But his dream is almost immediately derailed. Then Jude falls in love with his cousin, Sue Bridehead. He will not rest until he's won her love—even though both of them are married to other people when they fall in love with each other. But let me start at the beginning...

 

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