Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure
Mass Market Paperback
(Bantam Books May 16, 1981)
A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication.
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. It was met with widespread condemnation upon first publication in 1895 and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote.
- ISBN
- 0553211528 / 9780553211528
- Weight
- 8.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.8 x 4.3
in.