Jude the Obscure: Thomas Hardy
- ISBN-10
- 1539712699
- ISBN-13
- 9781539712695
- Series
- Jude the Obscure
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-10-24
- Publisher
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
Description
Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, 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 novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster," a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naive Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies."
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