It’s now considered one of Hardy’s finest works and is held up as an example of English novel writing at it’s best. Savagely criticised on publication it led to Hardy turning from novel writing and concentrating for the rest of his career on poetry alone. The novel caused quite a stir in late Victorian England due in part to it’s depiction of marriage and the role religion played in it. However when he finally arrives in Christminster he soon finds that a university education is not easily come by for one of his social standing.Meeting and falling in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead his future becomes a series of challenges to his moral, religious and social beliefs. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old Latin and Greek books sent to him by Phillotson.He trains as a stonemason in order to enable him to support himself when at the university. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. It is a place that teachers of men spring from, and. The tree of knowledge grows there, he added a few steps further on. It is a city of light, he said to himself. Download cover art Download CD case insert Jude the Obscure (Version 2)Įleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. As the halo had been to his eyes when gazing at it a quarter of an hour earlier, so was the spot mentally to him as he pursued his dark way.
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