Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Hb (c.1925)

Step into the brooding world of Thomas Hardy's most controversial novel — Jude the Obscure, the book so scandalous it drove Hardy to abandon fiction entirely.

Originally published in 1895, this is a c.1925 reprint edition — a handsome piece of early twentieth-century bookmaking. The story follows stonemason Jude Fawley, whose dreams of scholarship and love are crushed by class, convention, and fate. Hardy's unflinching treatment of marriage, religion, and social ambition shocked Victorian England; one bishop famously burned his copy. A century on, it remains one of the most powerful and emotionally raw novels in the English canon.

• Author: Thomas Hardy
• Edition: c.1925 reprint
• Binding: Hardcover (Hb)
• Condition: Preloved
• SKU: 2z58103