Jude the Obscure - Konemann Classics Author:Thomas Hardy Now considered his best work, Thomas Hardy's novel about a stonemason excluded from the privileged world of learning by class, and his relationship with an emancipated woman, scandalized the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist. This new Penguin Classics edition reprints the original 1895 edition and includ... more »es Hardy's "Postscript" of 1912.« less