"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."Virginia Woolf "There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." H. G. Wells Jude the Obscure, the semiautobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature. Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his workingclass background. His childhood schoolmaster has moved away from the village to teach at the University in Christminster. Jude spends his free time selfeducating himself with the aspirations of enrolling at Christminster, yet his dreams are thwarted when he falls in love with Arabella, a loutish and deceptive young woman who lures him into a disastrous marriage. After abandoning each other, Jude returns to his dream of becoming a scholar he moves to Christminster, where he falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and subsequently abandons all hope of academia. An intricate web of darkness ensues when Arabella returns into his life with a troubled son, who she informs is Judes. Trapped in an uncontrollable descent, Judes fate delivers him unspeakable tragedy. Jude The Obscure is one of literatures great works that explore the alienation and...

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