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# Jude the Obscure Paperback – July 10, 2016

**Brand:** thomas hardy
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## Customer Reviews

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    This Book Shocked Its Victorian Audience as Critics Vilified Thomas Hardy
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2019*

When this novel was published in 1895, the reading public's shocked reaction created a scandal so big and criticism of author Thomas Hardy so intense that Hardy bitterly gave up writing fiction forevermore. This was the kind of book that was probably hidden under the mattress and secretly read by candlelight.What was all the fuss about? In the staid and conservative Victorian era, Hardy's classic tale follows Mr. Jude Fawley, a poor, working-class orphan living with his great-aunt but who has big dreams of attending a college in the nearby Oxford-like town of Christminster. Jude encounters a series of obstacles, including an eye for the ladies and a taste for the drink, that thwarts his lofty goal. While he may be teaching himself Greek and Latin after a long day of work as a stonemason, he also can't help falling passionately in love with the wrong women. He is tricked into marrying the coarse and crude Arabella, who then leaves him by escaping to Australia—and without the benefit of divorce. Jude then falls in love with his free-spirited and independent-minded cousin, Sue, and openly lives with her as they proceed to have children—and without the benefit of marriage. Jude and Sue deeply suffer the financial and social consequences of brazenly defying the mores and morals of society, but nothing can prepare them for the deepest tragedy anyone can bear in life and the heartbreaking actions that ensue.Hardy fully intended to use the novel to lambaste the institution of marriage, as well as the Anglican church and higher education, and he did just that masterfully. But on an even deeper level, the characters play out their own battle of religious faith vs. insidious doubt, making this a brilliant, multilayered novel that still resonates today.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Thomas Hardy as Modern Writer in Disguise
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2017*

This is a difficult book to review, as it’s not usually considered Hardy’s most popular, most significant, or most highly regarded.  Yet it rates a “five” because, as a significant author, Hardy does one thing well: He illustrates the challenge of the desire of the human race to break free from old ideas and traditions, and to define and live out new, more satisfying and productive ways of living. He would say that the individual person should have the freedom to decide one’s destiny, not the rules defined by society or religion. In a sense, Hardy would be at home, a kindred spirit,  in the discussions of the meaning of life carried out in a variety of complex ways by Kierkegaard, Dostoyevsky, Sartre, or Camus.“Specifically in the novel” (says Cliff’s Notes), “Hardy depicts characters who raise questions about such things as religious beliefs, social classes, the conventions of marriage, and elite educational institutions and who feel in the absence of the old certainties that the universe may be governed by a mysterious, possibly malign power.”We who live in the 21st century face this constantly. An ongoing debate continues between liberal and conservative views of religion.  Liberal Christians, for instance, have no difficulty accepting both scientific discovery and thought, while conservative ones conduct a constant battle against new concepts.  Some will even insist on a narrow, literal view of Biblical Creation, instead of accepting the ongoing new discoveries of astro-science. Political contests abound in which those of progressive, liberal views, compete against candidates of conservative, even regressive views.  Every new election in almost any country is an example of this tension.  Keep the old way, or throw it out.  Adopt a new way, or reject it.  The recent U.S. election is the most visible illustration of this.  Politicians will characterize their opponents as evil, even the devil incarnate, whether true or not, while offering themselves as the new savior, the new knight in shining armor who will ride in on a white horse and make everything right again (Translate, “Make America Great Again”).Jude the Obscure is an excellent example (even the best example) of the author’s “gloom and deterministic” philosophy of life.  Optimism never appears on the scene, while tragedy dominates the narrative.  The negative gets worse and worse as all sorts of situations block Jude’s desire for happiness.The book is really a post-modern, 21st century novel in the disguise of one written in a Victorian environment.  Hardy’s treatment of marriage is quite akin to our contemporary context. In this regard, he was well ahead of his time. Further, he did not hesitate to depict the tragic, the horrific. The scene for example, of the deaths of Little Father Time and the younger children (Sue, who lived with Jude unmarried, expecting their third child, found Little Father Time had hanged the two babies and himself, after which Sue collapses and gives premature birth to a dead baby), were certainly shocking to Hardy’s contemporaries of the 1890's. However, they could fit in quite well with the novels, screenplays, and television dramas of today.So the five star rating comes from the unique parallel that Jude the Obscure has with the second decade of the 21st century.  To put it another way, Hardy is a secular prophet in his own right.

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    Dreadful
  

*by A***1 on Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2018*

Do not buy!!  Filled with errors and unreadable.  Here is a typical example. "It became for that reason left within the college till night, while more arms would be available for eliminating it; and the shoolmaster gave a final look spherical".  I can only conclude that the e-book is a computer generated copy, possibly a poor translation of a foreign language edition.  How else to explain why nearly every paragraaph is filled with multiple, incomprhensible sentences.,  Amazon should be ashamed for selling it.  I am a  Kindle reader with probably 600 e-books in my library, including books long out of print,  and I have never seen anything like this.

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