Type: Tragedy
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publication Date: 1895
Country: United Kingdom
Pages: 480
This play is so tragic that you will start feeling melancholy for the main protagonist Jude Fawley who is a simpleton aiming to become a scholar. His tumultuous life and love relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead is shown against the backdrop of the Victorian era by critiquing the institution of marriage and the education system.