Jude the Obscure, with an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex

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Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure, with an Etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a Map of Wessex (2018, Creative Media Partners, LLC)

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Published Nov. 13, 2018 by Creative Media Partners, LLC.

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978-1-378-51894-6
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Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl who pretends to be pregnant by him, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He earns a living as a stonemason at Christminster; there he falls in love with his independent-minded cousin, Sue Bridehead. Out of a sense of obligation, Sue marries the schoolmaster Phillotson, who has helped her. Unable to bear living with Phillotson, she returns to live with Jude and eventually bears his children out of wedlock. Their poverty and the weight of society's disapproval begin to take a toll on Sue and Jude; the climax occurs when Jude's son by Arabella hangs Sue and Jude's children and …

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