Jude the Obscure
Written by Thomas Hardy
- Category: Fiction - Literary
- Format: Hardcover
- On Sale: December 15, 1992
- Price: $23.00
- ISBN: 978-0-679-40993-9 (0-679-40993-9)
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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.
