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        Jude the Obscure


        setting

        Southern England

        time

        Late 19th century

        language

        English

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1895

        page count

        310

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the departing
        teacher's effects.

        last lines

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