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出版社:BANTAM BOOKS
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ISBN:9780553211917
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作者:Thomas Hardy著
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頁數:514
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出版日期:2010-09-02
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印刷日期:1969-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:32開
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版次:1
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印次:1
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In 1895 Hardy’s final novel, the great tale of Jude the Obscure, sent shock waves of indignation rolling across Victorian England. Hardy had dared to write frankly about sexuality and to indict the institutions of marriage, education, and religion. But he had, in fact, created a deeply moral work. The stonemason Jude Fawley is a dreamer; his is a tragedy of unfulfilled aims. With his tantalizing cousin Sue Bridehead, the last and most extraordinary of Hardy’s heroines, Jude takes on the world--and discovers,tragicallv, its brutal indifference.
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The issue of this book sixteen years ago, with the explanatory
Preface given above, was-followed by unexpected incidents, and one
can now look back for a moment at what happened. Within a day or
two of its publication the reviewers pronounced upon it in tones
to which the reception of Tess of the d’Urbervilles bore no
comparison,though there were two or .three dissentients from the
chorus. This salutation of the story in England was instantly
cabled to America, and the music was reinforced on that side of
the Atlantic in a shrill crescendo.
In my own eyes the sad feature of the attack was that the
greater part of the story-that which presented the shattered
ideals of the two chief characters, and had been more especially,
and indeed almost exclusively, the part of interest to myself was
practically ignored by the adverse press of the two countries; the
while that some twenty or thirty pages of sorry detail deemed
necessary to complete the narrative, and show the antitheses in
Jude’s life, were almost the sole portions read and regarded. And
curiously enough, a reprint the next year of a fantastic tale that
had been published in a family paper some time before, drew down
upon my head a continuation of the same sort of invective from
several quarters.
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JUDE THE OBSCURE A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH by Charles Child Walcutt SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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