Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure,a novel by T. Hardy , originally printed in abridged form in Harper 's New Monthly Magazine ( 1894 – 5 , as Hearts Insurgent), then in the 1895 edition of his works.
In the author's words, it is a story ‘of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit’. Jude Fawley, a young Wessex villager of exceptional intellectual promise, is encouraged by the schoolmaster Phillotson, and conceives the ambition of studying at Christminster (which represents Oxford). But he is trapped into marriage by the coarse, handsome barmaid Arabella Donn, who feigns pregnancy to win him, and shortly afterwards deserts him. He moves to Christminster, earning his living as a stonemason and continuing his studies, hoping one day to be admitted to the university, the vision of which still dominates him. He meets his cousin, Sue Bridehead, an unconventional, hypersensitive, Swinburne-quoting young woman who works...
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