{"product_id":"jude-the-obscure-9780140435382","title":"Jude the Obscure","description":"\u003cp\u003eMoving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking \"New Woman\". Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them.\u003c\/p\u003eSue Bridehead, his last heroine, is an extaordinarily complex woman - an English Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina.  Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge.  Hardy's fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist.\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9780140435382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 02 Sep 1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.9(L)x3.1(W)372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 372\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eThomas Hardy was born in Dorset in 1840 and became an apprentice architect at the age of sixteen. He spent his twenties in London, where he wrote his first poems. In 1867 Hardy returned to his native Dorset, whose rugged landscape was a great source of inspiration for his writing. Between 1871 and 1897 he wrote fourteen novels, including Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. This final work was received savagely; thereafter Hardy turned away from novels and spent the last thirty year of his life focusing on poetry. He died in 1928.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e'His style touches sublimity' \u003cbr\u003e ¬óT.S. Eliot\u003cp\u003e'The greatest tragic writer among English novelists'\u003cbr\u003e ¬óVirginia Woolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Hardy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48715909267673,"sku":"9780140435382","price":19.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/81N0kVJ7pIL._SL1500.jpg?v=1778977288","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/jude-the-obscure-9780140435382","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}