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Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Free public-domain ebook (Project Gutenberg #153)

  • English
  • EPUB
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Subjects

  • Adultery -- Fiction
  • Didactic fiction
  • Love stories
  • Illegitimate children -- Fiction
  • Wessex (England) -- Fiction
  • Stonemasons -- Fiction
  • Children -- Death -- Fiction
  • Unmarried couples -- Fiction

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