Jude the Obscure

"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."-Virginia Woolf

"There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." -H.G. Wells

Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this i ...