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Jude the obscure (audio)

Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses all else for a time, and they marry, but unhappily. Meeting his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead, Jude dares to dream again.Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster...

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  • "Michael Pennington reads Jude the Obscure"
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  • "Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses all else for a time, and they marry, but unhappily. Meeting his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead, Jude dares to dream again.Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster..."@en
  • "Details the story of Jude Fawley, a poor stonemason who longs to be a minister, and how the brutal deaths of his children and his inability to please the two women in his life hinder his dreams and threaten his existence."@en
  • "This the story of a tragic relationship between Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who is thwarted in his aspirations to the ministry, and Sue Bridehead, a free-thinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion."@en
  • "Hardy's last novel deals with a peasant scholar's foiled ambition, in a somber and painful work which was sharply criticized when it was first published. He dealt with sex frankly, more than was acceptable."@en
  • "The story of the tragic relationship between Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who is thwarted in his aspirations to the ministry, and Sue Bridehead, a free-thinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion."
  • "The story of the tragic relationship between Jude Fawley, a village stonemason who is thwarted in his aspirations to the ministry, and Sue Bridehead, a free-thinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion."@en
  • "Sexually innocent Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by seductive Arabella Donn, but their union is an unhappy one and Arabella leaves him. Jude's welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic free-thinker who would be his ideal soul-mate if not for her aversion to physical love. When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society."@en
  • "Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman,who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy's fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist."
  • "Jude's youthful ambitions to be a teacher or theologian lead to his intellectual growth, but his romantic entanglements with Arabella and Sue lead to tragic results."@en
  • "Jude's youthful ambitions to be a teacher or theologian lead to his intellectual growth, but his romantic entanglements with Arabella and Sue lead to tragic results."
  • "The story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women."
  • "The story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women."@en
  • "Thomas Hardy's last novel is a tragic, bleak story of mismatched lovers and blighted hopes and ambitions. Jude, a poor stonemason, dreams of getting a proper education and marrying his beloved cousin. On failing to get into Oxford University, he is seduced by a farm girl whom he marries and by whom he has a child. His cousin marries a schoolteacher who disgusts her. Finally the two thwarted lovers marry only to find themselves living in poverty and hopelessness."@en
  • "The last and controversial of Hardy's novels involves the tragic relationship of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason and Sue Bridehead, a free-thinking cousin who is shunned by society for her social and sexual rebellion. After being tricked into a unhappy marriage, Jude falls in love with Sue but society's rules will not permit them to be together."
  • "Jude the Obscure tells the story of a stonemason, tricked into a loveless marriage, who craves a formal education and a finer existence. Separated from his wife, Jude begins a new life with his cousin, and the couple defies social convention at every turn.--"@en
  • "Jude Fawley is a stonemason who desires to study at the university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn enters his life and distracts him from his endeavour, resulting in an unhappy marriage. Jude meets his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead who allows him to dream again. Defying conventional morality, Jude and Sue acknowledge their feelings for each other. Their lives become plagued by uncertainty and torment."@en
  • "Jude Fawley is a stonemason who desires to study at the university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn enters his life and distracts him from his endeavour, resulting in an unhappy marriage. Jude meets his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead who allows him to dream again. Defying conventional morality, Jude and Sue acknowledge their feelings for each other. Their lives become plagued by uncertainty and torment."
  • "Jude Fawley, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Deceived by Arabella Donn, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He then falls in love with his cousin, Sue Bridehead. Sue unable to bear living with her husband Phillotson, returns to live with Jude and eventually bears his children, out of wedlock."@en
  • "Jude the Obscure tells the story of a stonemason, tricked into a loveless marriage, who craves a formal education and a finer existence. Separated from his wife, Jude begins a new life with his cousin, and the couple defies social convention at every turn."@en
  • "A village stonemason is torn between his love for his cousin and a yearning to become a priest."@en
  • "Heartwrenching tale of a stonemason who desperately craves a formal education and a finer existence. Stuck in a loveless marriage, he begins a romance with his cousin. Together they defy social convention at every turn."
  • "Hardy called this story 'a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit'. It is a tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude Fawley, an ambitious and intelligent young man, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson."@en
  • "Het leven van een 19e eeuwse Engelse jongeman wordt sterk beïnvloed enerzijds door zijn drang naar kennis, anderzijds door zijn hartstocht voor een jonge vrouw."
  • "Jude Fawley is a stonemason with a passion for scholarship who longs to study at the nearby university town of Christminster. Then Arabella Donn comes into his life. His longing for her eclipses all else for a time, and they marry, but unhappily. Meeting his spirited and intelligent cousin, Sue Bridehead, Jude dares to dream again. But in acknowledging their feelings for one another, Jude and Sue risk becoming social outcasts. In defying conventional morality, their lives become plagued by uncertainty and torment - container."
  • "Sexually innocent Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by the seductive Arabella Donn, but their union is an unhappy one and Arabella leaves him. Jude's welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic freethinker who would be his ideal soul mate if not for her aversion to physical love. When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society. This fearless and outspoken story caused a furore on its publication and was Hardy's last novel."
  • "Jude Fawley, a country craftsman, is obsessed with becoming a University student, but finds himself up against a rigid social order that will not permit his advancement."@en
  • "Jude Fawley, a country craftsman, is obsessed with becoming a University student. Two women feature in this quest: Arabella Donn, who tricks him into marriage, and Sue Bridehead, his ethereal cousin. Jude finds himself up against a rigid social order that will not permit his advancement."@en

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  • "Jude the obscure (audio)"@en
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  • "Peter Jeffrey reads from Jude the obscure"@en
  • "Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy"
  • "Jude the obsure [CD]"@en
  • "Jude the obscure (unabridged)"@en
  • "Jude the Obscure"
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