Jude the Obscure

About Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy's 1895 final novel — the story of Jude Fawley, a stonemason who dreams of Oxford but is blocked by class and convention, and his love for his unconventional cousin Sue Bridehead. Hardy's darkest and most controversial novel, which caused enough outrage that he wrote no more fiction, turning to poetry for the final thirty-two years of his life.