num_pages: 568
description: Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.Because of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, Jude the Obscure aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.
language: English
title: Jude the Obscure
titlecomplete: Jude the Obscure
characters: Jude Fawley, Arabella Donn, Sue Bridehead
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, English Literature, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 70426
places: Dorset, England
awards: awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Premios Fervenzas Literarias
category: Traducción 
publisher: Everyman's Library