Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attenduniversity and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations ofthe two wom... » 

Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attenduniversity and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations ofthe two women he loves points to his final tragedy. Concerned with thedestructive conventions of marriage and the English class system Jude theObscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society the censure of thisinsightful book was almost without precedent in the history of Englishliterature. «