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Jude the obscure by thomas hardy5/29/2023 As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. He yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex). The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896).
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