Jude the Obscure
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- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
2 September 1998
Summary
Sue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extraordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina. Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfillment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy’s fearless exploration of sexual and social relationshi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435382 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435387 |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Dennis Taylor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 31mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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‘His style touches sublimity’
‘His style touches sublimity’ T.S. Eliot
‘The greatest tragic writer among English novelists’ Virginia Woolf
About The Author
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 of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.
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