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Jude the obscure /

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller. - New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992. - xxxvii, 518 p. : map ; 21 cm. - Everyman's library .

Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii).

0679409939 : $20.00 ($25.00 Can.)

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Stonemasons--Fiction.
Illegitimate children--Fiction.
Children--Death--Fiction.
Unmarried couples--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.


Wessex (England)--Fiction.


Didactic fiction.
Love stories.

PR4746 / .A1 1992

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