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Jude the Obscure
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ISBN10: 0486452433
ISBN13: 9780486452432
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Dec 1 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486452432
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Dec 1 2006
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.26 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
Powerful and controversial from its 1895 publication to the present, Jude the Obscure scandalized Victorian critics, who condemned it as decadent, indecent, and degenerate. Between its frank portrayals of sexuality and its indictments of marriage, religion, and England's class system, the novel offended a broad swath of readers. Its heated reception led the embittered author to renounce fiction, turning his considerable talents ever afterward to writing poetry.
Hardy's last novel depicts a changing world, where a poor stonemason can aspire to a university education and a higher place in society -- but where in reality such dreams remain unattainable. Thwarted at every turn, Jude Hawley abandons his hopes, is trapped into an unwise marriage, and pursues a doomed relationship with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. The lovers find themselves equally incapable of living within the conventions of their era and of transcending its legal and moral strictures. Hailed by modern critics as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought, Hardy's tragic parable continues to resonate with readers.
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