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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/268796316 Title: Jude the obscure Author: Thomas Hardy; Jay Parini; William Deresiewicz Publisher: New York : Signet Classics, ©2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780451531339 0451531337 9780140435382 0140435387 OCLC:268796316

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Jude the obscure

Author:	Thomas Hardy; Jay Parini; William Deresiewicz
Publisher:	New York : Signet Classics, ©2009.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Fiction : English
Summary:	"Thomas Hardy's art achieves raw perfection in the characterization of Jude Fawley, a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. His failure to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves thwarts him in this ideal and points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, Jude the Obscure is a Read more...
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Subjects	Stonemasons -- Fiction. Illegitimate children -- Fiction. Children -- Death -- Fiction. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Romance fiction Didactic fiction Fiction
Material Type:	Fiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Thomas Hardy; Jay Parini; William Deresiewicz Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780451531339 0451531337 9780140435382 0140435387
OCLC Number:	268796316
Notes:	"The text of this edition of Jude the Obscure is that of the Wessex Edition (1912), published by St. Martin's Press, Inc."--Page [411].
Description:	xv, 409 pages ; 18 cm
Responsibility:	Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by Jay Parini and a new afterward by William Deresiewicz.

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Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking "New Woman". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious Read more...

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