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Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
Thomas Hardy
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Description for Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
Paperback. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Editor(s): Taylor, Dennis; Ingham, Patricia. Num Pages: 528 pages, map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 362.
Thomas Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in Penguin Classics.
Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster university are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140435382
SKU
V9780140435382
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Ref
99-22
About Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess ... Read more
Reviews for Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
'His style touches sublimity' T.S. Eliot'The greatest tragic writer among English novelists' Virginia Woolf