Name: Jude the Obscure
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9781613103111

Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure

Jude Fawley's 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 stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy's last novel, caused a public furore when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.

jack

wow! this fucking sucked! pig scene is wild, will be thinking about that for a long time. part five, chapter five is one of the most beautiful and well written chapters of anything i’ve ever read. really really loved this one even if i’m gonna be really upset the next couple days. hardy’s ability to craft a devastating plot that isn’t ruined by its painfully obvious moral preaching is........ crazy. nothing feels forced at all yet it makes a perfect argument. at this point i’m just rambling but i really really loved this book a lot

“...and as the little sun-rays continued to stream in through his hat at him, he wished he had never seen a book, that he might never see another, that he had never been born.”

Jude the Obscure

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