Jude the obscure - Thomas Hardy - Books -  - 9798671892154 - August 6, 2020
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Jude the obscure

The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse, morally lax and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released August 6, 2020
ISBN13 9798671892154
Pages 532
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 30 mm   ·   771 g
Language English  

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