Description
Jude the Obscure stands as Thomas Hardy's final and most controversial novel, a searing exploration of ambition, love, and social constraint in Victorian England. Following the tragic journey of Jude Fawley, a working-class stonemason with intellectual aspirations, the narrative traces his relentless pursuit of education and self-improvement against the rigid barriers of class and circumstance. Intertwined with his academic struggles is a complex romantic entanglement that tests the boundaries of Victorian morality and convention. Hardy's unflinching examination of desire, marriage, and the cost of idealism in an unforgiving society challenged contemporary readers and remains a powerful meditation on the gap between human longing and social possibility. This masterwork of realism and psychological depth showcases Hardy's distinctive voice at its most penetrating and uncompromising.
Available Editions
paperback
Courier Corporation
Published Dec 1, 2006
338 pages
ISBN: 9780486452432
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2019
528 pages
ISBN: 9780241382691
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Details
First Published
1895
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy.