Text Blog- Summary of a Book "Jude the Obscure"

This book is written by Thomas Hardy in 1896. He was born in 1840, in upper Bockhampton, a village near Dorchester in the south-west of England.

In Summary, young Jude Fawley comes to Mrygreen from Wessex a year ago after his father had died. He lives with his great-aunt who is a baker in Marygreen. He often looks across the fields to the roofs and spires of the city of Christminister. He promises himself that one day he will leave his obscure life in Marygreen and go there. He will study at the university, enter the Church and become a great man. But it is not easy for a poor boy to follow the path Jude has chosen, and life has many surprises for him. First, there is Arabella Donn, the beautiful country girl who is looking for a husband. And then there is Sue Bridehead, whom Jude loves. Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead have both had unhappy first marriages. Then they fall in love, and on the way their past returns, bringing them hope, then sadness.