Jude the Obscure Contributor(s): Hardy, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847498078 ISBN-13: 9781847498076 Publisher: Alma Books OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Romance - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1110 |
Series: Evergreens |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.70 lbs) 448 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 8661 Reading Level: 8.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 27.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy's fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn. Jude, still hoping to earn a place at the university, travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason. Here, he falls for his freethinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures of poverty and social disapproval soon threaten to ruin their lives. Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society's attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women. The novel, which caused an immediate uproar on its publication, is now widely considered to be one of the great works of the nineteenth century, and the apotheosis of Hardy's fiction. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hardy, Thomas: - Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, though he saw himself as a poet and wrote novels mainly for financial gain only. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. |