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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy · 1895 · 527 pages
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. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar.
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Douglas Rushkoff
“The first novel I read that held together on a regular plane as well as thematic one – as story as well as a symbolic journey. There could be others that work like Jude, but something about this book – the way the author is dealing with ideas like evolution along with the collapse of class culture – made it feel like a precursor to modernism. Like the birth of modernism.”↗
