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Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller
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Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller

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Jude’s story - his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead - shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry.

Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy’s masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
15 December 1992
Pages
568
ISBN
9780679409939

Jude’s story - his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead - shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.

Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry.

Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy’s masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Date
15 December 1992
Pages
568
ISBN
9780679409939