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A determined young man from a rural background aspires to university study but is repeatedly thwarted by class barriers, personal relationships, and rigid institutions. He becomes involved with a complex, free-thinking woman and later endures an unhappy domestic arrangement that undermines his goals. The story tracks successive episodes of hope, compromise, and despair while probing marriage, religion, education, and the law. Structured in linked parts that move between village, cathedral city, and provincial towns, the narrative shows how social conventions and intimate failures combine to frustrate an individual's intellectual and emotional ambitions.

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Title: Jude the Obscure

Author: Thomas Hardy

Release date: August 1, 1994 [eBook #153]
Most recently updated: January 15, 2025

Language: English

Credits: John Hamm. Revised by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D.

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JUDE THE OBSCURE

by Thomas Hardy


CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART FIRST—At Marygreen
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI

PART SECOND—At Christminster
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII

PART THIRD—At Melchester
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X

PART FOURTH—At Shaston
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI

PART FIFTH—At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII

PART SIXTH—At Christminster Again
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI