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Jude the Obscure
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Thomas Hardy's *Jude the Obscure* follows Jude Fawley, a working-class man whose aspirations to scholarship and his troubled relationships bring him into conflict with the social and religious conventions of Victorian England. It suits readers interested in classic literary fiction and Hardy's critical portrayal of marriage and class.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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