Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller (Everyman's Library Classics Series) (Hardcover)

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Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller (Everyman's Library Classics Series) (Hardcover)

By Thomas Hardy, J. Hillis Miller (Introduction by)

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Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.

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.

Rosellen Brown is the author of Half a Heart, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies and Before and After. She lives in Chicago.

Product Details ISBN: 9780679409939
ISBN-10: 0679409939
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Publication Date: December 15th, 1992
Pages: 568
Language: English
Series: Everyman's Library Classics Series
"His style touches sublimity."—T.S. Eliot