Hardy Thomas

The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster," a city modelled on Oxford. 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. But before he can try to do this the naive Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant."

Jude the Obscure

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In place of it a tall new building of modern Gothic design, unfamiliar to English eyes, had been erected on a new piece of ground by a certain obliterator of historic…

Guys this language is so confusing why don’t they say anytning normally 😔😔😔😔

Miss Fawley doubted it. *Why didn't ye get the schoolmaster to take ee to Christminster wi un, and make a scholar of ee," she continued, in frowning pleasantry. "Tmn sure

COUDLNT be me I need all cockroaches to perish 

Though Farmer Troutham had just hurt him, he was a boy who could not himself bear to hurt anything. He had never brought home a nest b of young birds without lying awake in misery… he tiptoed amongst the earthworms, without killing a single one.

. Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. 

Nature's logic was too horrid for him to care for

. That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. 

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