Jude the obscure.
Series: Modern library, 135
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1923
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Description: Jude Fawley's aspirations to the dignity and rewards of life are continually thwarted by tragic obstacles of fate. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'.