Jan 3, 2010

Jude the Obscure | Summary

Jude is an eleven year old orphan living with his great aunt in Marygreen, a provincial town about 20 miles from Christminster, the university modeled after Oxford. Although of working class background, he develops an interest in getting a university education. Richard Phillotson, the former schoolmaster, sends him old Greek and Latin textbooks and Jude begins to study for several years on his own, while working first as a bakery cart driver and then as an apprentice to a stonemason.

However, his studies are interrupted when he meets and marries Arabella, whose earthiness and...