Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller - Rilegato

Hardy, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0679409939 ISBN 13: 9780679409939

Casa editrice: Everyman's Library, 1992

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"His style touches sublimity."—T.S. Eliot
From the Paperback edition.

L'autore:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Everyman's Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679409939
• ISBN 13: 9780679409939
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 568