Jude The Obscure Penguin Black Classics

Jude the Obscure follows Jude Fawley, a working‑class stonemason who dreams of entering the university city of Christminster but is repeatedly crushed by rigid class barriers and moral hypocrisy. The novel traces his doomed relationships with his conventional wife Arabella and his free‑thinking cousin Sue Bridehead, exposing the brutal consequences of social prejudice, religious constraint, and sexual double standards.