false 2371309 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 50798 126 2011241 book 1895 Jude the Obscure total:6134|5:1949|4:2024|3:1400|2:493|1:268| 6134 23295 8343 588 15905 3.71 38678 3315 77585673 45618 207083 0375757414 9780375757419 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598m/207083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598s/207083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207083.Jude_the_Obscure 4.01 201 Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.

Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man’s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy’s most widely read novels.]]> 1895 5 26 false Thu Nov 12 15:18:50 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 20:32:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5736053 351034 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.77 4976 </DIV>]]> 1895 4 8 false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 05 17:51:11 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 09:04:33 -0800 2009
I can't fault Hardy's tal...more...]]> 27871199 381149 677604 0140431314 9780140431315 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177050583m/677604.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177050583s/677604.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/677604.Jude_the_Obscure 3.85 85 1895 3 3 false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Mon Jul 21 11:57:03 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 12:23:49 -0700 2008 Jude the Obscure would be an ideal book for secondary school pupils struggling with their book reports. See, the way Hardy wrote the novel, the reader is not required to think for himself about what th...more...]]> 3419650 214218 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 5 3 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Mon Jul 23 13:35:03 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 01:40:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9118339 419287 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 3 5 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Nov 14 13:45:26 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 03 20:13:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2625082 166685 207083 0375757414 9780375757419 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598m/207083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598s/207083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207083.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.

Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man’s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy’s most widely read novels.]]> 1895 2 2 false Mon Jul 02 08:06:29 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 02 08:06:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4037554 251329 78211 0760703000 9780760703007 9 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170921535m/78211.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170921535s/78211.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78211.Jude_the_Obscure 3.66 62 1895 5 2 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Fri Aug 03 13:12:30 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:36:43 -0800 2009 Bleak is the entire point of Jude the Obscure. In fact, most of Thomas Hardy's works can be summed up with that same word.

Characters in Hardy's books make bad decisions. As a reader, you "watch" them make bad deci...more...]]> 11349711 431846 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 5 4 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 31 13:16:53 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 13:20:57 -0800 2007 more...]]> 7163463 446272 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 4 2 false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Oct 02 14:50:02 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 15:54:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 38709580 1309716 1705185 0451523709 9780451523709 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187151005m/1705185.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187151005s/1705185.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1705185.Jude_the_Obscure 3.82 28 1895 4 1 false Wed Nov 26 14:09:55 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 12:48:46 -0800 2008
I found it validating an...more...]]> 24865700 130750 1168807 1593080352 9781593080358 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181591998m/1168807.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181591998s/1168807.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168807.Jude_the_Obscure 3.92 48 Thomas Hardy was so distressed by the shocked outrage that greeted Jude the Obscure in 1895 that he decided to quit writing novels. For in telling the story of Jude Fawley, whose many attempts to rise above his class are crushed by society or the forces of nature, Hardy had attacked Victorian society’s most cherished institutions—marriage, social class, religion, and higher education.



A poor villager, Jude Fawley longs to study at the elite University of Christminster, but his ambitions are thwarted by class prejudice—and an earthy country girl who tricks him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. Entrapped in a loveless marriage, he becomes a stonemason and falls in love with his cousin—the intellectual, free-spirited Sue Bridehead, who is also unhappy in marriage. Sue leaves her husband to live with Jude and eventually bears his children out of wedlock. Their poverty and the weight of society’s disapproval begin to take their toll on the couple, forcing them into a shattering downward spiral that ends in one of the most shocking scenes in all of literature.



A stunning masterpiece, Jude the Obscure is Hardy’s bleakest and most personal novel.

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I felt misled about this book. It wasn't nearly as dark and depressing as it claimed to be, and as such was disappointing to me. Also it seemed to be less about Jude's struggles to get into a university (indeed he seemed to give up rather easily to my mind) as promised by t...more...]]> 6430206 394191 328892 160312067X 9781603120678 8 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173797284m/328892.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173797284s/328892.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328892.Jude_the_Obscure 4.26 82 is true, the way it happens, and this is the book responsible: Jude the Obscure. This is the book that created thunderstorms of antipathy so intense that Hardy just didn't want to face it again, ever. Read it now and see what the fuss was all about!]]> 1895 0 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Wed Sep 19 06:05:27 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 06:21:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 17801069 283231 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 5 1 false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 15 09:10:41 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 06:16:52 -0700 2008
Eight years later, I have...more...]]> 28097198 570698 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 4 1 false Wed Jul 23 15:02:09 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 22:28:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 31506419 1425042 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 4 1 false Fri Aug 29 04:17:04 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 04:23:55 -0700 2008
I'm only about thirty pages in, but so...more...]]> 5150099 311172 207083 0375757414 9780375757419 31 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598m/207083.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172684598s/207083.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207083.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage, education, and religion, reportedly causing one Angli-can bishop to order the book publicly burned. The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.

Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man’s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy’s most widely read novels.]]> 1895 1 1 false Sun Aug 26 20:12:47 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 07:11:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 857295 68073 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 1 1 false Tue Apr 24 06:51:50 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 18:23:12 -0800 2009 more...]]> 9193989 430758 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 4 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Nov 16 08:45:20 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 08:47:17 -0800 2007
Something did.

I finished ...more...]]> 38249618 1736354 50798 0486452433 9780486452432 420 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747m/50798.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170371747s/50798.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50798.Jude_the_Obscure 3.80 6134 </DIV>]]> 1895 2 1 false Thu Nov 20 14:27:47 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 06:41:35 -0800 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2371309