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Hardy's 1895 final novel following Jude Fawley — a stonemason's apprentice who dreams of attending Christminster University, is trapped by marriage, and sees every aspiration crushed — ending with the suicide of Jude's son Father Time and Jude's own death, causing a public outcry that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.
British novelist and poet who wrote Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Jude the Obscure — exploring the crushing of individual aspiration and natural impulse by social convention and cosmic indifference in rural Victorian England.