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Jude the Obscure

Author
Thomas Hardy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
13 hours 39 minutes
ISBN
9781802564013
Published
18 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • social critique
  • ambition
  • love
  • marriage
  • religion
  • societal expectations
  • Wessex
  • stonemason
  • education
  • convention challenge

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Description

Stonemason Jude Fawley reaches for scholarship while his love for cousin Sue Bridehead collides with marriage, religion, and Wessex society. Hardy's unsparing story of ambition crushed by the rules that claim to civilise it. Spoken as when learning and love both demand more than the world will grant.

Author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave English literature its most unforgettable tragic landscapes — the imagined county of Wessex, where heath, village, and market town hold the fate of ordinary lives. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far from the Madding Crowd, he wrote characters undone by chance, desire, and the hard edges of Victorian society.

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