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Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics)
Jude the Obscure - Signet Classics
Author: Thomas Hardy
The first truly critical edition of Hardy's most controversial novel, presenting a "clean" text in which Hardy's own light punctuation is restored.
ISBN-13: 9780451523709
ISBN-10: 0451523709
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Signet Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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buzzby avatar reviewed Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics) on + 6062 more book reviews
Written in 1895. the editors kindly put a map of Wessex (out by Cornwall) in the front.

FROM THE BACK COVER: Thomas Hardy's deterministic art achieves fanatic intensity and raw perfection the the characterization of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry. Throughout his agonized existence, the cloistered halls and facades of Christminster, where Jude would study, sadistically invite him to rid himself of ignorance. His failure to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves and the violent deaths of his children thwart him in his ideal and point his distrution. concerned with the annihilation of innocence, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society. The censure attending its appearance was almost without precedent in the history of English literature.
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A dark tale about fate, marriage, love, and society.


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