Jude the Obscure - (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Paperback)

Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in Penguin Classics.

This unbowdlerized first-volume text of 1895 includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary.

Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude Fawley and his cousin Sue Bridehead decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them.

This edition uses the unbowdlerized first-volume text of 1895, and includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary.

In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.