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Hardy's last novel, Jude the Obscure, is one of the great masterworks of the fin de siecle, a work that capped Hardy's exploration of Wessex working class figures. But Jude the Obscure is an exceptional novel not only because of its unforgettable characters, the aspiring Jude Fawley, the modern and emancipated Sue Bridehead, and the morose child, nicknamed "Little Father Time," but because of its intense exploration of cultural and familial taboos which destroy its strong heroes. Over the century there have been many editions of Hardy's great novel, but few have been as lovely as this one, printed on acid-free paper. Reprinted from the first American edition, this book represents part of Sun & Moon's attempt to publish by the end of our own century several major works of the fin de siecle.
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Thomas Hardy's last novel charts the life of Jude Fawley from his parochial childhood to his death in the collegiate city of Christminster, the centre of his intellectual dreams and their failure. Initially published as a much-abridged serial, the text first appeared in its full and present form in 1895.
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In 1895 Hardy's final novel, the great tale of Jude The Obscure, sent shockwaves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardy's heroines, Jude takes on the world--and discovers, tragically, its brutal indifference. The most powerful expression of Hardy's philosophy, and a profound exploration of man's essential loneliness, Jude The Obscure is a great and beautiful book. "His style touches sublimity."--T.S. Eliot
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- PublisherSun & Moon Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1557132038
- ISBN 13 9781557132031
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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