Cover of Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

Published 1895

Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared - marriage, religion, education - and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.

Social life and customsDeathPineFictionUnmarried couplesMan-woman relationshipsopen_syllabus_projectAdulteryStonemasonsDiseases and pestsIllegitimate childrenChildren

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