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Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Impoverished Jude Fawley harbours ambitions to study under the dreaming spires of Christminster – a thinly disguised Oxford University. Under the crushing weight of class and circumstance – including a duplicitous marriage – those aspirations are doomed to fail in a daring novel that shocked Victorian readers in its defiance of societal conventions but is now hailed a tragic masterpiece.
