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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
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Description for Jude the Obscure
Paperback. Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
'One of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls’ The Times
Jude Fawley is a young man who longs to better himself and go to Christminster University. However, poverty forces him into a job as a stonemason and an unhappy marriage. When his wife leaves him Jude moves to Christminster determined to follow his dream. There he meets and falls for his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. They refuse to marry, much to the disapproval of the community around them. In this heartbreaking story Hardy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099518990
SKU
V9780099518990
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About Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840. His father was a stonemason. He was brought up near Dorchester and trained as an architect. In 1868 his work took him to St Juliot's church in Cornwall where he met his wife-to-be, Emma. His first novel, The Poor Man and the Lady, was rejected by publishers but Desperate Remedies was published ... Read more
Reviews for Jude the Obscure
Visceral, passionate, sylvan...anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression..dealing with love, death, with young people with everything before them, dealt a cruelly stacked hand... Hardy reaches deeper, into our wildest recesses. In a safe world, he speaks to our animal side.
Evening Standard
To no tragic novelist do we surrender more completely at the last...one of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel ... Read more
Evening Standard
To no tragic novelist do we surrender more completely at the last...one of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel ... Read more