num_pages: 428
description: Thomas Hardy's deterministic art achieves fanatic intensity and raw perfection in the characterization of Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who aspires to the ministry. Throughout his agonized existence, the cloistered halls and facades of Christminster, where Jude longs to study, sadistically invite him to rid himself of ignorance. His failure to fulfill the opposite expectations of the two women he loves and the violent deaths of his children thwart him in this ideal and point to his destruction. Concerned with the annihilation of innocence, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society. The censure attending its appearance was almost without precedent in the history of English literature. D. H. Lawrence detected "a constant revelation...a great background, vital and vivid...This is the wonder of Hardy's novels, and gives them their beauty."
language: English
title: Jude the Obscure
titlecomplete: Jude the Obscure (Signet Classics)
characters: Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead, Jude Fawley
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 70436
places: Dorset, England
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Signet Classics