Jude Fawley, a stonemason, is abandoned by his wife and meets his married cousin Sue Bridehead in Christminster. She becomes the passion of his life. Society shuns them for their "wild marriage." However, when Jude's wife Arabella sends their son from Australia and Jude and Sue want to raise him alongside their own children, a tragedy of life and death begins. Thomas Hardy's greatest work sparked such an outrage in 19th century England that he never wrote another novel. It is one of the most dramatic, passionate love stories in English literature - in a gripping new translation by Alexander Pechmann.