Jude the Obscure

From the author of Far from the Madding Crowd comes one of the top 100 books of English Literature. 'People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.' Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy's final novel and tells the story of Jude Fawley, a stonemason, who takes on the world only to find that the world has no place for heroes. In this classic novel, Thomas Hardy criticizes Victorian society, marriage, classism, and religious legalism.