Thomas Hardy The Mayor Of Casterbridge Jude The Obscure

Author : Simon Avery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309443
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure written by Simon Avery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726609118
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Fawley is a simple working-class man who dreams of one day becoming something more. Yet after the failure of his first marriage, a loveless entrapment built upon lies, Jude starts to have feelings for his cousin, Sue Bridehead, and soon sacrifices all that he has to pursue a life together with her. A dark and pessimistic story of how man's unfettered desire may lead to the ruin of everyone around him, ‘Jude the Obscure’ led to a scandalous outcry amongst its Victorian readership. It is the final novel written by Thomas Hardy, and one of his most powerful in its unabashed exploration of class, religion, and sexuality. ‘Jude the Obscure’ is a perfect tragedy for readers of Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ or du Maurier's ‘Rebecca’. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English writer of poetry, novels, and short stories. He belonged to the Victorian realist tradition in English literature and was influenced by the writings of Romanticism. His novels strongly criticise Victorian society for constraining individuals in regard to marriage, education, and religion: shunning happiness in the name of social propriety. Hardy’s works explore themes of love, class, and poverty with a painstaking devotion to realism. His best-known works include ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’, ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles’, and ‘Jude the Obscure’.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part First AT MARYGREEN "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women… O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"—Esdras. I The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry. The miller at Cresscombe lent him the small white tilted cart and horse to carry his goods to the city of his destination, about twenty miles off, such a vehicle proving of quite sufficient size for the departing teacher's effects. For the schoolhouse had been partly furnished by the managers, and the only cumbersome article possessed by the master, in addition to the packing-case of books, was a cottage piano that he had bought at an auction during the year in which he thought of learning instrumental music. But the enthusiasm having waned he had never acquired any skill in playing, and the purchased article had been a perpetual trouble to him ever since in moving house. The rector had gone away for the day, being a man who disliked the sight of changes. He did not mean to return till the evening, when the new school-teacher would have arrived and settled in, and everything would be smooth again. The blacksmith, the farm bailiff, and the schoolmaster himself were standing in perplexed attitudes in the parlour before the instrument. The master had remarked that even if he got it into the cart he should not know what to do with it on his arrival at Christminster, the city he was bound for, since he was only going into temporary lodgings just at first.

Author : Simon Avery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137021683
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure written by Simon Avery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two of Hardy's major tragic novels, from the time of their publication to the present. Simon Avery traces the changing critical fortunes of the texts and explores the diverse range of interpretations produced by different theoretical approaches.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393269191
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jude the Obscure (Third Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Thomas Hardy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Third Norton Critical Edition of Hardy’s final novel has been revised to reflect the breadth of responses it has received over the last fifteen years. The text of the novel is again based on Hardy’s final revision for the 1912 Wessex Edition. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: · Expanded footnotes by Ralph Pite, further drawing out Hardy’s web of allusions and comprehensively indicating the material culture in which he embeds this narrative. · A selection of Hardy’s poems—four of them new to the Third Edition—that emphasizes the biographical contexts from which parts of Jude the Obscure arose. · Eighteen critical responses, including eleven modern essays—eight of them new to the Third Edition. Simon Gatrell, Michael Hollington, Elaine Showalter, Victor Luftig, and Mary Jacobus are among the new voices. · A Chronology and revised and expanded Selected Bibliography.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Facts On File
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure written by Harold Bloom and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight critical essays on Thomas Hardy's last major novel, arranged in chronological order of publication.

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2382743530
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mayor of Casterbridge written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a country fair near Casterbridge in Wessex Michael Henchard, a 21-year-old hay-trusser, argues with his wife Susan. Drunk on rum-laced furmity he auctions her off, along with their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane, to Richard Newson, a passing sailor, for five guineas. Sober and remorseful the next day, he is too late to locate his family. He vows not to touch liquor again for 21 years. Believing the auction to be legally binding, Susan lives as Newson's wife for 18 years. After Newson is lost at sea Susan, lacking any means of support, decides to seek out Henchard again, taking her daughter with her. Susan has told Elizabeth-Jane little about Henchard, and the young woman knows only that he is a relation by marriage. Susan discovers that Henchard has become a very successful hay and grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety. He has avoided explaining how he lost his wife, allowing people to assume he is a widower. When the couple are reunited, Henchard proposes remarrying Susan after a sham courtship, this in his view being the simplest and most discreet way to remedy matters and to prevent Elizabeth-Jane learning of their disgrace. To do this, however, he is forced to break off an engagement with a woman named Lucetta Templeman, who had nursed him when he was ill....

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663604170
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jude the Obscure written by Thomas Hardy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead.