Jude the Obscure audiobook
by Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
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Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old Latin and Greek books sent to him by Phillotson.He trains as a stonemason in order to enable him to support himself when at the university.However when he finally arrives in Christminster he soon finds that a university education is not easily comeby for one of his social standing.Meeting and falling in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead his future becomes a series of challanges to his moral, religious and social beliefs.