Jude the Obscure

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ISBN: 9780375757419
author: Thomas Hardy / Rosellen Brown
book format: Paperback
publishing house: Random House Publishing Group
publication date: 2001 -8
language: English
number of pages: 494

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In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Jude The Obscure , sent shockwaves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardy's heroines, Jude takes on the world and discovers, tragically, its brutal indifference. The most powerful expression of Hardy's philosophy, and a profound exploration of man's essential loneliness, Jude The Obscure is a great and beautiful book. 'His style touches sublimity.'—T.S. Eliot

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