Jude the Obscure: Introduction by J. Hillis Miller (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780679409939)

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.

Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN-10: 0679409939
ISBN-13: 9780679409939
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Language: English
Published: 12/15/1992
Pages: 568
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.33h x 5.25w x 1.33d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.9
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 8661 / Jude the Obscure