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Book The Wessex Novels  Jude the obscure

Download or read book The Wessex Novels Jude the obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jude the Obscure

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jude the Obscure

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part First AT MARYGREEN "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"—Esdras. I The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's effects. For the schoolhouse had been partly furnished by the managers, and the only cumbersome article possessed by the master, in addition to the packing-case of books, was a cottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the year in which he thought of learning instrumental music. But the enthusiasm having waned he had never acquired any skill in playing, and the purchased article had been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house. The rector had gone away for the day, being a man who disliked the sight of changes. He did not mean to return till the evening, when the new school-teacher would have arrived and settled in, and everything would be smooth again. The blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were standing in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument. The master had remarked that even if he got it into the cart he should not know what to do with it on his arrival at Christminster, the city he was bound for, since he was only going into temporary lodgings just at first.

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780393972788
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an authoritative text of a poor stone carver, Jude Fawley, who is torn between his dreams of a university education and the desires of his own carnal nature and also includes background information on the novel as well as Hardy's nonfictional writings and poems and comments by critics on his other works.

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
  • Publisher : Turtleback
  • Release : 2021-02
  • ISBN : 9781663604170
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wessex Novels

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book The Wessex Novels written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jude the Obscure  Third Edition   Norton Critical Editions

Download or read book Jude the Obscure Third Edition Norton Critical Editions written by Thomas Hardy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy’s final novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy’s final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Expanded footnotes by Ralph Pite, further drawing out Hardy’s web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative. · A selection of Hardy’s poems—four of them new to the Third Edition—that emphasizes the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose. · Eighteen critical responses, including eleven modern essays—eight of them new to the Third Edition. Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig, and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

Book Thomas Hardy s Jude the Obscure

Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Jude the Obscure written by Harold Bloom and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight critical essays on Thomas Hardy's last major novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1427045224
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Hardy Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : 1st World Publishing
  • Release : 2007-08
  • ISBN : 1421848791
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Hardy Thomas Hardy and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Fawley, a young stonemason, aspires to an education and a life in the ministry but finds society indifferent to his goals.

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-02-14
  • ISBN : 9781543103311
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude the Obscure, the last completed novel by Thomas Hardy, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage.Plot:The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the na�ve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.After Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, Mr. Phillotson, whom she eventually marries. However, she soon regrets this, because in addition to being in love with Jude, she is physically disgusted by her husband, and, apparently, by sex in general. Sue soon leaves Phillotson for Jude. Because of the scandal, Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster.Sue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship. This is because of Sue's dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage. Soon after, Arabella reappears and this complicates matters. But Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced. However, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude's, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father. He is named Jude and nicknamed "Little Father Time" because of his intense seriousness and moroseness..........Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. AVictorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society.While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.......

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead.

Book Jude the Obscure  1895  Novel by

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-04-27
  • ISBN : 9781532960352
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure 1895 Novel by written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude the Obscure, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster," a city modelled on Oxford. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. But before he can try to do this the naive Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. The marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies. After Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, Mr. Phillotson, whom she eventually marries. However, she soon regrets this, because in addition to being in love with Jude, she is physically disgusted by her husband, and, apparently, by sex in general. Sue soon leaves Phillotson for Jude. Because of the scandal Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster. Sue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship, because of Sue's dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage. Soon after, Arabella reappears and this complicates matters. But Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced. However, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude's, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father. He is named Jude and nicknamed "Little Father Time" because of his intense seriousness and moroseness."

Book The Haunted Air

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  • Author : F. Paul Wilson
  • Publisher : Forge Books
  • Release : 2010-04-01
  • ISBN : 1429915293
  • Pages : 543 pages

Download or read book The Haunted Air written by F. Paul Wilson and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. Paul Wilson's engaging, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense, action-packed adventure just a little over the border into the weird, in The Haunted Air. First introduced years ago in the bestseller The Tomb, Jack has been the hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New York City including Legacies, Conspiracies, All the Rage, and Hosts. "Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of suspense steadily rising," said the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. In Astoria, Queens, the lively ethnic neighborhood just across the river from Manhattan, a house is being haunted by the ghost of a nine-year-old girl in riding clothes. More than two decades before, she'd been abducted from stables in Brooklyn. Now it's up to Jack to uncover the truth of her story and liberate the pretty, blond spirit. Perhaps the answer is in the odd little store called the Shurio Coppe? Ah, but that would be telling. Jack does things no human being should be able to do, but we watch, in horrified fascination, as the forces of evil seem about to triumph and fill the world with eternal darkness. And then-- but you must read the book. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Jude the Obscure

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  • Author : Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher : Standard Ebooks
  • Release : 2020-07-22T03:18:21Z
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2020-07-22T03:18:21Z with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude the Obscure was first published in its complete form in 1895, just after finishing its serial run in Harper’s Magazine. At the time, its unconventional and somewhat scandalous themes earned it widespread criticism and condemnation. In the 1912 “Wessex Edition,” Hardy appended a postscript to the book’s preface in which he stated that the outrage ultimately abated with no lingering effect other than “completely curing me of further interest in novel-writing.” Indeed, Jude was to be Hardy’s last novel. The story chronicles the life of Jude Fawley, an orphan boy of unremarkable birth or means, growing up in the small farming village of Marygreen in Hardy’s fictional version of Wessex, England. From an early age, Jude determines to chart the course of his life by the stars of learning and scholarship, but he very quickly discovers just how little interest the society of his time would take in the grand ambitions of a young man of so humble an origin. Without proper guidance and limited resources, his progress is slow and arduous. And when he discovers the existence of his cousin, the charming Sue Bridehead, it is nearly abandoned altogether in favor of an almost obsessive pursuit. The novel proceeds to trace the lives of Jude and Sue as they become locked in a struggle both against themselves and the conventions of their times. Lofty ideals clash with harsh realities; grand pursuits fall prey to darker aspects of human nature. Characters are complex: at times spiteful, selfish, or self-destructive. Hardy, however, remains very subtle in his portrayal of these tragic figures and their flaws. The effect is to render them convincingly human. Ultimately, Jude is an unhappy tale of unfulfilled promise that is rarely told, and rarely told so well. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.