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Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics)

by Thomas Hardy

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ISBN13: 9780375757419
ISBN10: 0375757414
Condition: Standard
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.

Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man’s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy’s most widely read novels.

Review:

"The greatest tragic writer among English novelists."

--Virginia Woolf

Synopsis:

Recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels, "Jude the Obscure" is the sad story of love and sexual desire as dictated by the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century. At its apex is the tragic Jude Fawley, a "simple" country boy whose aspirations to rise in class are thwarted and his love affair with a woman socially above him is a disaster.

About the Author

Rosellen Brown is the author of Half a Heart, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies and Before and After. She lives in Chicago.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780375757419
Introduction:
Brown, Rosellen
Author:
Brown, Rosellen
Author:
Hardy, Thomas
Publisher:
Modern Library
Location:
New York
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Children
Subject:
Death
Subject:
Adultery
Subject:
Love stories
Subject:
Stone-masons
Subject:
Illegitimate children
Subject:
Didactic fiction
Subject:
Wessex
Copyright:
Edition Number:
2001
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Modern Library Classics
Series Volume:
SB-116
Publication Date:
August 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
528
Dimensions:
8.03x5.23x1.14 in. .93 lbs.

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