Jude The Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Feedbooks 1895
ISBN/ASIN: 0141028890
Number of pages: 378
Description:
Hardy's masterpiece traces a poor stonemason's ill-fated romance with his free-spirited cousin. No Victorian institution is spared -- marriage, religion, education -- and the outrage following publication led the embittered author to renounce fiction. Modern critics hail this novel as a pioneering work of feminism and socialist thought.
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