“We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
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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. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.
“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
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“Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die…”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
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“But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
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“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
Pt. VI, ch. III
Jude the Obscure (1895)
“Done because we are too menny.”
Thomas Hardy book Jude the Obscure
Pt. VI, ch. II
Jude the Obscure (1895)
