- Paperback: 492 pages
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (T); Reprint edition (November 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0192816705
- ISBN-13: 978-0192816702
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,960,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death.
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Inspiring and horrifying at once. As relevant as ever., Aug 22 1998
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This review is from: Jude the Obscure (Paperback)
This novel renewed my fascination with the written word. Hardy's prose has a uniquely akward elegance, his characters truly live within the text, and the story grips us and keeps us up at night. Horrifying and invigorating at once, it kept me dreaming of certain possibilities dreamed of one hundred years ago, and still yet to be realized. A comparison to Tess can reveal a great deal about the past fifteen years in American culture, considering the fact that Jude has begun to overshadow Tess in the eyes of social critics as Hardy's greatest contribution. After reading these two novels, I believe they show us how far we've travelled in terms of gender equality: just as far as we had travelled one hundred years ago. Jude's new-found popularity shows our own subtle shift from a culture failing to recognize the plight of the victimized woman, to one underhandedly rejecting the emergence of the outspoken, independent, "modern" woman. More than that, these books remind us of exactly who suffers in the wake of our obstinance.
In its time, this novel was one of the few in history to affect real social change. It was the sited inspiration for the re-organization of the English Public Education system. Unfortunately, not all of the ills of society can be cured with fiction. We're still working on some of them, Tom. Please have patience.
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Tragically unrealistic, Aug 23 1998
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This review is from: Jude the Obscure (Paperback)
I read Jude as a challenge. I couldn't relate to the characters at all. Except maybe Arabella. Jude and Sue were tremendously sad characters. Jude was obviously an intellegent man, but idiotic in his view of Sue. Sue was a sorceress, contented only when messing up other people's lives and leaving them broken-hearted. Though very well-written and to some extent heartfelt, Jude to me was a classic with poor morals and suicidal mortals.
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