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  • Paperback: 512 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (26 Jul 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140620605
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140620603
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected..., 31 Jul 2006
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When I received this book for Christmas last year, I looked at it and wondered if I would ever read it. Fortunately, I decided to about a month ago and did not regret it. It was a real hard-hitting read;don't be fooled by the blurb which sort of suggests it is a romantic sweet book as it is more powerful than that. It was one of few books that I can honestly say, when finished, left me with a shocked almost sad look on my face(and thats saying something as Iam an avid reader and not much hits me that much). The ending is completely unexpected which keeps you hooked. I highly recommend it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The Modern Hardy, 7 Mar 2007
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If like me, your were put off Hardy by studying him at school or if you have in your mind's eye a writer obsessed with Wessex and a kind of moralising pastoralism, then try reading Jude. Here is a novel written with real emotional conviction and shot through with an anger which only comes from real experience. It is really a book about rebelling against conventions particularly about sexual morality and the aspirations of the artisan. Jude Fawley is an abandoned child who from his earliest years dreams of a richer fuller life both culturally and physically which he believes will be opened to him through higher education, symbolised by the distant spires of Christminster (Oxford). The passion with which Jude adores everything the venerable university stands for is only matched by his awareness of the futility of his dreams but that does not stop his hunger for books and learning which occupy his every free moment as he practices the trade of a stonemason. However, his sensual appetites override his academic ambitions and he finds himself imprisoned in a marriage devoid of the passion that brought it about. Meeting Sue Bridehead who he perceives as his soul mate underlines his captive state and they both come to question the very purpose of marriage resolving to live together without the need for a piece of paper. Yet the consequences of offending Victorian social codes are severe: from social exclusion to the loss of employment and indirectly the death of their children. Sue's response involves a return to the mindset she eschewed in her youth, Jude remains defiant bemoaning the fact that he was `fifty years ahead of his time' and coming to hold his beloved Oxford and its metaphysics in contempt. Rarely has the anguish of broken dreams had more resonance than here. Indeed Hardy prefigures the modernist obsession with self and the clash between impulse and duty. The tone throughout is bleak and often bitter, but the emotional dilemmas are so vivid and authentic that the scenes have genuine pathos and the characters the depth to engender sympathy. The book has a touch of the classical tragedy about it, and even Hardy's rather pedestrian language scarcely limits the power of his heartfelt plea for the tolerance of difference. If you haven't read Hardy begin here, if you think you don't like his work, Jude is the book to change your mind.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Put this in Your Cart NOW!!!!!!!!!!, 31 Oct 2002
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This is truly a rich and beautiful novel. The characters are among the most richly drawn in literature. This is one of those rare instances in literature where the reader encounters a story born out of the characters and not simply characters created to carry a predestined plotline through to completion. Jude and Sue, with their tormented love and tempestuous struggle against life, are like each of us - with lives that don't always wrap up "just so."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hardy's Best and My Favourite
This is an excellent novel by one of the great nineteenth century novelists and definitely one of my favourites. Read more
Published 29 days ago by I. M. Knight

2.0 out of 5 stars Well written but appallingly conceived
Thomas Hardy cinematic writing is extraordinarily visual and pulls new readers into his redrawn world of Wessex. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Martin Turner

5.0 out of 5 stars A (surprisingly) great novel!
I loved this book! When I decided to read it I had so many preconceptions about what it would be like (sadly, I used to equate Hardy with `boring'). I was so wrong. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Suz

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprise Literature read
I had to read this for my 3rd year university English course. I made a special effort this year to try and read as much of the required reading as possible, and this was one of... Read more
Published 19 months ago by E. V. Maile

3.0 out of 5 stars Wasn't overly impressed
A rather disturbing tale, which though has moments of greatness ultimately fails to satisfy. The story tells of Jude, who sets his heart on attaining entrance to Christminister... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Ibrahim Ali

5.0 out of 5 stars Jude the Obscure
Like many, I read Hardy novels at school rather than through choice. I was put off by his ability to take what seemed like pages to describe a tree!! Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2006 by J. Reader

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for the faint hearted!
This is a dreary and depressing novel.......and as such is one of Hardy's finest! Widely renowned, this was Hardy's last novel in his long and rich days of writing. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2004 by g_campbell1

2.0 out of 5 stars not great
the superficiality of this scheme (generally meaning that those who review it, will tend to be those that like the thing) renders it impossible to judge whether this "classic" is... Read more
Published on 22 Jul 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars Hardy's admirable attempt at a dream
Hardy conforms to his distinctive stark realistic view of the world in Jude the Obscure; in this intricately personal novel the reader is invited to empathise with a reality that... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2003 by amy

5.0 out of 5 stars Hammered by life
Jude, a tallented Stonemason, is followed by Hardy on his downward spiral through life. Probably Hardy's bleakest novel, but also his most powerful. Read more
Published on 1 Feb 2002 by Richard Shakespeare (rshakesp@...

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