Jude the Obscure, the last completed novel by Thomas Hardy, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. Jude the Obscure is an angry book, and a deeply radical one. To write it, Hardy went further into himself than ever before, exposed his deepest feelings and was creatively wounded by the hostility of the response to what one critic called "the most indecent book ever written".

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	October 7, 2018
ISBN13	9781727769524
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	370
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 20 mm · 494 g
Language	English

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