A sensitive, romantic and precocious boy, his head is soon filled with dreams of escaping the material and cultural poverty of the small, sleepy village, to gain a university education and become a gentleman in the church. He lives with his great aunt who makes it clear how little she wants him around. Jude has been an orphan for less than a year. Before leaving, Mr Phillotson urges Jude to be good, to read all that he can and to call on him if he is ever near Christminster. Mr Phillotson is leaving for Christminster – an Oxford-like town – where he hopes to obtain his degree and enter the church. Jude Fawley, a young boy living in the English countryside, is heartbroken to see his beloved schoolmaster leave. Jude, though, is a far darker and more provocative novel from Hardy, inviting scandal for its attacks on social and religious conventions. In it you will find all of Hardy’s trademarks – an intelligent, frustrated heroine encroaching modernity and tragedy in love. Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy’s final novel.
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