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Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

Annotated Edition (Alma Classics Evergreens)

by Thomas Hardy
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/01/2020
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Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, is encouraged in his scholarly pursuits by the local schoolmaster, Mr Phillotson.

Jude dreams of studying at the university of Christminster, the author's fictional representation of Oxford. Yet, soon Jude is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn, and he travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason while continuing his studies in the hope of being admitted to the university one day.

There, Jude falls for his free-thinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures of poverty and social disapproval soon threaten to ruin their lives. Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women.

The novel, which caused an immediate uproar on its publication, is now widely considered to be one of the great works of the nineteenth century and the apotheosis of Hardy's fiction. This edition is fully annotated and contains extra material.

ISBN:
9781847498076
9781847498076
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-01-2020
Publisher:
Alma Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.36kg
“There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude.” – H.G. Wells,
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840. His first published novel was Desperate Remedies in 1871. Such was the success of these early works, which included A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) and Far From the Madding Crowd (1874), that he gave up his work as an architect to concentrate on his writing.

However, he had difficulty publishing Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1889) and was forced to make changes in order for it to be judged suitable for family readers. This, coupled with the stormy reaction to the negative tone of Jude the Obscure (1895), prompted Hardy to abandon writing novels altogether and he concentrated on poetry for the rest of his life. He died in January 1928.

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