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Jude the Obscure Trade paperback - 1998
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- Paperback
Now considered his best work, Thomas Hardy's novel about a stonemason excluded from the privileged world of learning by class, and his relationship with an emancipated woman, scandalized the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist. This new Penguin Classics edition reprints the original 1895 edition and includes Hardy's "Postscript" of 1912.
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Details
- Title Jude the Obscure
- Author Thomas Hardy
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used Good
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, London
- Date September 1998
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 199132
- ISBN 9780140435382 / 0140435387
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 4.96 x 0.91 in (20.07 x 12.60 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1110
- Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Wessex (England)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99178195
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
‘I’m an outsider to the end of my days!’
Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds 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. Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.