Bibliograph

Jude the obscure, Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by Jay Parini and a new afterward by William Deresiewicz

Type

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Jude the obscure, Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by Jay Parini and a new afterward by William Deresiewicz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-409)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Jude the obscure

Oclc number

268796316

Responsibility statement

Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by Jay Parini and a new afterward by William Deresiewicz

Summary

"Thomas Hardy's art achieves raw perfection in the characterization of Jude Fawley, a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. His failure to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves thwarts him in this ideal and points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, 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. D. H. Lawrence detected 'a constant revelation ... a great background, vital and vivid ... This is the wonder of Hardy's novels, and gives them their beauty'"--P. [4] of cover

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