Highly controversial when it was first published, with outcries from the Victorian public for its frank treatment of sex, it was often referred to as "Jude the Obscene". The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. This, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"-Esdras. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women. (1895) "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes.
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