Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl …
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Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl who pretends to be pregnant by him, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He earns a living as a stonemason at Christminster; there he falls in love with his independent-minded cousin, Sue Bridehead. Out of a sense of obligation, Sue marries the schoolmaster Phillotson, who has helped her. Unable to bear living with Phillotson, she returns to live with Jude and eventually bears his children out of wedlock. Their poverty and the weight of society's disapproval begin to take a toll on Sue and Jude; the climax occurs when Jude's son by Arabella hangs Sue and Jude's children and himself. In penance, Sue returns to Phillotson and the church. Jude returns to Arabella and eventually dies miserably. The novel's sexual frankness shocked the public, as did Hardy's criticisms of marriage, the university system, and the church. Hardy was so distressed by its reception that he wrote no more fiction, concentrating solely on his poetry.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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Jude the Obscure (English Library)
512 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 1998 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-043131-5Copied ISBN!
Jude the obscure
494 pages
English language
Published Nov. 8, 2001 by Modern Library.
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- 978-0-375-75741-9Copied ISBN!
Jude the obscure
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2015 by Clipper Large Print.
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- 978-1-4712-8554-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 897882902
Jude the obscure
[electronic resource] /
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2005 by ICON Classics.
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- 978-1-4237-9460-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 71001115
Jude the Obscure
414 pages
English language
Published May 19, 1961 by New American Library.
- OCLC Number:
- 1831061
Jude the obscure
[electronic resource] /
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2005 by ICON Classics.
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- 70118814
Jude the obscure
[electronic resource] /
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2005 by ICON Classics.
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- OCLC Number:
- 70190852
Jude the Obscure
Paperback
Published April 7, 2007 by Penguin Book UK.
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- 978-0-14-062394-9Copied ISBN!
Jue lian
235 pages
Chinese language
Published May 19, 1999 by Zhongguo dian ying chu ban she.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-106-01526-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 50051203
Jude the Obscure
438 pages
English language
Published May 19, 1896 by Dolphin Books.
- OCLC Number:
- 70305778
Jude the Obscure
423 pages
English language
Published May 19, 1969 by Macmillan.
- OCLC Number:
- 70392965
Jude the Obscure
paperback, 382 pages
Published May 28, 2014 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
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- 978-1-4997-1272-8Copied ISBN!
Jude the Obscure
paperback, 326 pages
Published Dec. 26, 2017 by Digireads.com Publishing.
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- 978-1-4209-5667-2Copied ISBN!
Jude the Obscure
audio cd, 1 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2012 by Blackstone Audio.
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