Jude The Obscure - Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardys Last Novel, Jude The Obscure Is A Fearless Exploration Of The Hypocrisy Of Victorian Society, Edited With An Introduction By Dennis Taylor In Penguin Classics.jude Fawleys Hopes Of An Education At Christminster University Are Dashed When He Is Trapped Into Marrying The Wild, Earthy Arabella, Who Later Abandons Him. Moving To Christminster To Work As A Stonemason, Jude Meets And Falls In Love With His Cousin Sue Bridehead, A Sensitive, Freethinking ' Woman'. 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.