Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy, Dennis Taylor, Dennis Taylor , Patricia Ingham

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Penguin
17 September 2019

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

A beautiful clothbound edition of Hardy's most tragic novel

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude falls in love with Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, free-thinking '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, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships, caused a public furore when it was first published and marked the end of Hardy's career as a novelist.

By: Thomas Hardy
Illustrated by: Coralie Bickford-Smith
Notes by: Dennis Taylor
Introduction by: Dennis Taylor
Edited by: Patricia Ingham
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780241382691
ISBN 10: 0241382696
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 17 September 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.

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