Jude the Obscure (English Library)

Sisson, C.; Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140431314 ISBN 13: 9780140431315

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1979

Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death.

Review:

After disastrous first marriages, Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead find love which Sue is reluctant to tarnish by marriage, a decision for which society cruelly marginalises them. Through the doomed trajectory of their lives, Hardy sympathetically explores the fault lines in Victorian attitudes to marriage and in the couple's vain attempts to sustain their 'highest and purest love'. --Rachel Redford, The Oldie

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