7/3/2023 0 Comments Jude the obscure![]() Jude meets and has an ongoing affair with his cousin Sue Bridehead, even after her marriage to his former teacher, Phillotson. He moves to Christminister to pursue his dream, but is is ultimately rejected and is disillusioned from becoming a scholar. He learns the craft of stone masonry and has a poorly-chosen marriage to local girl Arabella Donn as a teenager, which finally ends in separation. Jude the Obscure tells the story of working-class man Jude Fawley, a dreamer with aspirations to become a scholar in the town of Christminster (modeled after Oxford). ![]() Like most of Hardy's novels, it is set in the fictional region of Wessex in south-west England, though on the very edge of it rather than at the heart of it. note The Well-Beloved was first published in book form two years later, but was written several years earlier. Jude the Obscure was the last published novel by English author Thomas Hardy, first appearing as a magazine serial in 1894 and being published as a book the following year. ![]()
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