Jude the Obscure (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- First Published: 1895
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Philosophical realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Wessex, England
- Principal Characters: Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead, Little Father Time, Richard Phillotson, Drusilla Fawley
- Genres: Long fiction, Philosophical realism
- Subjects: Suicide, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Rural or country life, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Illegitimacy, Drinking or drunkenness, Fate or fatalism, Loneliness, Learning or scholarship
- Locales: Wessex, England
The Story:
When he was eleven years old, Jude Fawley said good-bye to his schoolmaster, Richard Phillotson, who was leaving the small English village of Marygreen for Christminster to study for a degree. Young Jude was hungry for learning and yearned to go to Christminster too, but he had to help his great-grandaunt, Drusilla Fawley, in her bakery. At Christminster, Phillotson did not forget his former pupil. He sent Jude some classical grammars, which the boy studied eagerly.
Anticipating a career as a religious scholar, Jude apprenticed himself at the age of nineteen...
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