by Thomas Hardy · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140431315
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«Jude the Obscure» is the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Jude Fawley, a stonemason from Wessex, aspires to study at Christminster, but his humble origins and social conventions prevent him. His relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, after previous marriages, clashes with Victorian institutions: marriage, education and religion. A love story and social critique with a tragic tone.
First published in 1895, this Penguin English Library edition, with introduction and notes by C. H. Sisson, includes a chronology and glossary.
For readers of late Victorian fiction and social critique in rural nineteenth-century England.
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.
