Jude the Obscure

Jude FawleyΓÇÖs hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella,who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemasonJude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Brideheada sensitivefreethinking ΓÇÿNew WomanΓÇÖ. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious conventionJude and Sue decide instead to live togetherbut they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the ObscureHardyΓÇÖs last novelcaused a public furore when it was first publishedwith its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.