Jude The Obscure

Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead a sensitive freethinking New Woman. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention Jude and Sue decide instead to live together but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them.|Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead a sensitive freethinking New Woman. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention Jude and Sue decide instead to live to...|Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.