“I knew that after writing this sweeping family portrait that goes over about 40 years in the Bain family’s history, that for my next novel, I wanted to write something that was very focused, that was quite propulsive, and quite edited in the scope and the time that we spend with the characters. And so, […]
"His style touches sublimity." —T. S. Eliot"There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." —H. G. WellsJude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘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", Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
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Jude the Obscure (Centaur Classics) [The 100 greatest novels of all time - #72]
"His style touches sublimity." —T. S. Eliot"There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or the power for the creation of Jude." —H. G. WellsJude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘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", Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
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ISBN-13: | 9788892560635 |
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Publisher: | Angelo Pereira |
Publication date: | 03/01/2016 |
Sold by: | StreetLib SRL |
Format: | eBook |
Sales rank: | 339,072 |
File size: | 2 MB |
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