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Jude the ObscureJude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1895.Warning: wikipedia contains spoilers The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a stonemason who hankers after an academic career, longing to become a student at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. Having been lured into an unwanted marriage with a country girl who soon deserts him, Jude's ambitions come to nothing. He becomes obsessed with his cousin, Sue Bridehead, but she marries a schoolteacher, with whom she is unhappy. When Jude and Sue attempt to set up home together, society is against them. Jude's eldest son (from his first marriage), observing the problems he and his siblings are causing for their parents, commits suicide and kills the other two children. This event ends Jude's relationship with Sue, and he descends into squalor and death. She picked the Candy Rabbit up and
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clerk. "Come, children."
And when Arnold had picked up his Bold Tin Soldier and put him back
toy friends, but it was not to be just then.
"I wonder if I shall see the Candy Rabbit again," he thought as he
shopping trip.
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White Rocking Horse," said Arnold.
And when the four toys in Dick's house had a chance to talk among
Captain said:
"Oh, I have such news for you!"
"What is it?" asked the Sawdust Doll.
"I think the Candy Rabbit is going to be sent to a little girl named
the White Rocking Horse. "She is Mirabell's cousin, and she knows
Tin Soldier. "I am glad of that!"
And as for what happened next--well, if you wish to know you may find
"The Story of a Candy Rabbit." In it you will again meet the Bold
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