![]() ![]() ![]() He and Sue become free to marry, but Sue shrinks from the step. Jude, who had been planning to enter the priesthood as a licentiate, as a substitute for his thwarted intellectual ambitions, is now doubly defeated. She is driven from him by physical revulsion, and flies to Jude they live together but do not consummate their love until Arabella reappears on the scene. Sue, in what appears to be a fit of desperate masochism, suddenly marries Phillotson. He meets his cousin, Sue Bridehead, an unconventional, hypersensitive young woman who works in a shop selling ecclesiastical ornaments: they fall in love. He moves to Christminster (which represents Oxford), hoping one day to be admitted to the university. He is trapped into marriage by the barmaid Arabella Donn, who shortly afterwards deserts him. Jude Fawley, a young Wessex villager of exceptional intellectual promise, is encouraged by the schoolmaster Phillotson. ![]() ![]() In the author's words, it is a story ‘of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit’. Hardy, originally printed in abridged form in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1894–5, as Hearts Insurgent), then in the 1895 edition of his works. ![]()
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