Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy, Rosellen Brown

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English

Modern Library Inc
14 August 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.

Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude's ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude's undoing and Sue's transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man's essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy's most widely read novels.

By: Thomas Hardy
Introduction by: Rosellen Brown
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9780375757419
ISBN 10: 0375757414
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 14 August 2001
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Inactive

Rosellen Brown is the author of Half a Heart, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies and Before and After. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews for Jude the Obscure

The outraged reception of this work persuaded Hardy to renounce the novel in favour of poetry, but if anything its power has only grown over the years. Bleak it certainly is; the writing, however, has rarely been bettered. Jude tells the story of a struggle between flesh and spirit, body and soul, in Jude Fawley, a young Wessex villager of great promise. A stonemason who wishes to study at Christminster - Oxford thinly-disguised - his chances are dashed through poverty. He contracts a loveless marriage and becomes involved in a doomed affair with his cousin. (Kirkus UK)