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Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction and notes by Amy M. King ; George Stade, consulting editorial director.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
- Series:
- Barnes & Noble classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stonemasons--Fiction.
- Stonemasons.
- Illegitimate children--Fiction.
- Illegitimate children.
- Children--Death--Fiction.
- Children.
- Children--Death.
- Unmarried couples--Fiction.
- Unmarried couples.
- Wessex (England)--Fiction.
- Wessex (England).
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Didactic fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 440 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Barnes & Noble Classics, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Nothing so coarsely indecent as the whole history of Jude in his relations with his wife Arabella has ever been put in English print," asserted M. O. W. Oliphant, the Scottish humorist. Hardy's "Jude the Obscure--the ill-received novel that was to be his last--is a strikingly modern portrait of provincial, workaday life, frank sexuality, and the desire to transcend the mire of prosaic living. Amy M. King is Assistant Professor of Literature at the California Institute of Technology, and the author of "Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. King received her doctorate in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University in 1998.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-440).
- ISBN:
- 1593080352
- OCLC:
- 53928183
- Online:
- Publisher description
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