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Jude the Obscure

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Engelsk
Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
  • Forfatter: Thomas Hardy
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 528
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9780140435382
  • Utgivelsesår: 1998
  • Bidragsyter: Hardy, Thomas
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Thomas Hardy''s last novel, Jude the Obscure is a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in Penguin Classics.

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 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, 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.

This edition uses the unbowdlerized first-volume text of 1895, and includes a list for further re