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  • Published: 17 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241382691
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $35.00

Jude the Obscure





A beautiful clothbound edition of Hardy's most tragic novel

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Jude Fawley's hopes of an education at Christminster University are dashed when he is trapped into marrying the wild, earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to Christminster to work as a stonemason, Jude falls in love with Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, free-thinking '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. Jude the Obscure, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships, caused a public furore when it was first published and marked the end of Hardy's career as a novelist.

  • Published: 17 September 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241382691
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $35.00

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