Author: HARDY, THOMAS (1840-1928); SISSON, C. H. (CHARLES HUBERT) (1914-2003)
Title: 'Jude the obscure' / Thomas Hardy; edited with an introduction and notes by C.H. Sisson
Description: Harmondsworth : Penguin 1978. First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 510 p. Includes glossary. 'First published 1896. Published in the Penguin English Library 1978.' 1984 reprint. Series; Penguin English library. Summary; Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. Review: I was a teenager when I read this book. There was something about Hardy's harsh. fatalistic world that appealed to me then. Despite. or maybe because of. the pessimism. I think I found it rather romantic and I read everything of his that I could lay my hands on. Then I got to Jude. And Jude was just so sad. so unfair. so much about fate shafting a good man in all kinds of ways. that I overdosed on Hardy and could never read him again. But I still remember sitting on my bed and crying my heart out at the injustice of it all. I cried so much my mother came upstairs to check I was all right. I think she was worried about a teenage excess of emotion. Maybe that was what I liked about Hardy all along: you can shamelessly feel as you read him. (Kirkus UK) Subjects; General & literary fiction ; Classic fiction. FICTION / Classics. Fiction in English. ISBN: 0140431314. Weight in Kg appr.:

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