Publisher description for Jude the obsure / Thomas Hardy.
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Hardy's classroom perennial is one of the most heartfelt expressions of despair ever written. A masterpiece of melancholy, it follows the trials of a poor stonemason and his tumultuous affair with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared — marriage, religion, education — and the outrage the novel sparked prompted Hardy to never write a work of fiction again.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Stonemasons -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Children -- Death -- Fiction.
Unmarried couples -- Fiction.
Wessex (England) -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.