Jude the Obscure

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Jude the Obscure

Author : Thomas Hardy

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Highlights

English

Language

Worlds Classics

Edition

451

Pages

9780192816702

ISBN-13

0192816702

ISBN-10

Oxford University Press (China)

Publisher

176 mm

Height

110 mm

Width

21 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

Jude the Obscure 1895 was Hardy's last and most controversial novel, provoking such widespread and bitter attacks that, he claimed, it silenced him as a novelist.

The parallel stories of working-class Jude rejected by the University of Christminster and Sue Bridehead outcast by society for her social and sexual rebellion focus dominant issues of the period. But the technique is far in advance of its time: Hardy presents what he calls 'a series of seemings', alternative and conflicting visions never resolved.

This edition is the first truly critical one, based on a detailed study of textual transmission. It presents a 'clean' text by restoring Hardy's own characteristically light punctuation. The notes include variant readings which show startling changes made in the characterization of Sue during composition and revision.