Bibliograph

Jude the obscure, Edited by Robert C. Slack

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Jude the obscure, Edited by Robert C. Slack

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages xxvii-xxix

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jude the obscure

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Edited by Robert C. Slack

Summary

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar. Provocative and daring for its day, the book was burnt publicly by the Bishop of Wakefield when it was published in 1895

Target audience

adult

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