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Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.
Jude Fawley’s hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude falls in love with Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, free-thinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships, caused a public furore when it was first published and marked the end of Hardy’s career as a novelist.
Penguin Clothbound Classics Series
With splendid packaging created by award-winning designer Coralie Bickford-Smith, Penguin Classics presents beautiful hardcover editions of beloved classic literature. Featuring custom patterns inspired by each work stamped on linen cases, colored endpapers, and ribbon markers, these gift-worthy editions of more than sixty titles including Great Expectations, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Wuthering Heights are one of the most coveted series of classic literature ever produced.
