Jude the Obscure (1895) - Thomas Hardy

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Jude the Obscure (1895) - Thomas Hardy
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Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cousin, Sue. Themes include class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the modernization of thought and society. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_the_Obscure [Aug 2006]

While the novel has been considered unfilmable, Michael Winterbottom adapted it in 1996.

See Jude