by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620603
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«Jude the Obscure» is Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Jude Fawley, a young stonemason of humble origins, sees his dream of studying at university thwarted after marrying Arabella, who later abandons him. In Christminster he meets his cousin Sue Bridehead, an independent, free-spirited woman; together they defy conventions on marriage and religion and suffer social rejection as they try to live together.
It is Thomas Hardy's last novel, originally published in 1895; this edition, part of the Penguin Popular Classics collection, appeared in 1994.
For readers of Victorian classics and nineteenth-century British literature, with an interest in social criticism and romantic relationships.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
