{"product_id":"jude-the-obscure-by-thomas-hardy","title":"Jude the Obscure By Thomas Hardy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e31\/07\/2003\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy's last novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a fearless exploration of the hypocrisy of Victorian society, edited with an introduction by Dennis Taylor in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJude 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.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition uses the unbowdlerized first-volume text of 1895, and includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Hardy (1840-1928), born Higher Brockhampton, near Dorchester. Though he saw himself primarily as a poet, Hardy was the author of some of the late eighteenth century's major novels:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1886),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1891),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFar from the Madding Crowd\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1874), and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(1895). Amidst the controversy caused by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, he turned to the poetry he had been writing all his life. In the next thirty years he published over nine hundred poems and his epic drama in verse,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dynasts\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e, you might also like Thomas Hardy's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTess of the D'Urbervilles\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Visceral, passionate, anti-hypocrisy, anti-repression ... 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