Production notes: This ebook of Jude the Obscure was published by Global Grey in 2019. This book has 444 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1895. Part of Anne Haight's List of Banned Books. This was Hardy's last novel, and it caused a public furor when it was first published, with its challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. The novel’s plot is designed to wring all the possible tragedy out of an unhappy marriage, as Jude is first guilted into marrying Arabella by her feigned pregnancy, and Sue marries Phillotson mostly to make Jude jealous. 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. Much of Jude the Obscure consists of a critique of the institution of marriage, which Hardy saw as flawed and unjust. 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'. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Jude the Obscure Thomas HardyĪvailable to download for free in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook formats. In Jude the Obscure, Hardy addresses the prevailing Victorian attitudes associated with social class and standing, educational opportunities, religion, the. Buy the entire collection (over 2,400 ebooks) for only £15.
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