What is the surname of the title character in Thomas Hardy's novel 'Jude The Obscure'?
Jude the Obscure of the ITV drama "Broadchurch" are drawn from the life and works of Thomas Hardy, and one character says in a police interview that he had read the book "Jude the Obscure". Michael Ian Black has created a podcast called "Obscure", where he reads and comments on the book Jude the Obscure. It began on 8 June 2018. Jude the Obscure Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. It is Hardy's last completed novel. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a
Jude the Obscure Hardy provides details of the conception and writing history of the novel, claiming that certain details were inspired by the death of a woman (most likely his cousin, Tryphena Sparks) in 1890. Called "Jude the Obscene" by at least one reviewer, "Jude the Obscure" received a harsh reception from some scandalized critics. Among the critics was Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield; Hardy later claimed that the bishop had burned a copy. It has been suggested that negative criticism was the reason that Hardy stopped writing novels after "Jude", but poet C. H. Sisson describes this "hypothesis" as "superficial and absurd".