Perennial Classic. Paperback – Unabridged

Jude the Obscure was the last and, perhaps, the greatest of Thomas Hardy’s novels. It is a complex and deeply disturbing work that most fully states Hardy’s pessimistic determinism and painfully probes the relationship between the individual and his society. But Jude is never just it is a true work of art, a sustained high tragedy in modern terms, and a powerful study of intellectual and sexual unfulfillment.