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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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Author Biography

Name: Thomas Hardy
Birth Date: June 2, 1840
Death Date: January 11, 1928
Place of Birth: Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, novelist, poet, dramatist

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Biography of Thomas Hardy
1424 words, approx. 4.7 pages
The works of the English novelist, poet, and dramatist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) unite the Victorian and modern eras. They reveal him to be a kind and gentle man, terribly aware of the pain human beings suffer in their struggle for life. Thomas Hardy pres...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12938 words, approx. 43.1 pages
In the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally regarded as both a major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
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Biography of Thomas Hardy
12533 words, approx. 41.8 pages
In the later years of his long life, Thomas Hardy was probably the most famous English man of letters of his time, his reputation extending throughout the world. He is now generally regarded as both a major late-Victorian novelist and a major twentieth-c...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jude the Obscure Summary
5,133 words, approx. 17 pages
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in the village of Upper Bockhampton, in Dorset. He was the eldest of four children of Thomas Hardy, a builder and master mason, and Jemima Hand. Both parents were from longestablished...
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Jude the Obscure Information
998 words, approx. 3 pages
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. The book was burnt publicly by the Bishop of Exeter in that same year. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams...


News and Journals
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The Daily Mail (London, England)
Jude the obscure is mistaken for car thief.
07/13/2002: 535 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: MARK REYNOLDS HIS classical good looks and dapper image have won him fans around the world. But away from the cameras, Jude Law would appear to lack some of that star presence. Tired and dishevelled after a long flight, the...
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Daily Mail
Jude the obscure is mistaken for car thief
07/13/2002: 531 words, approx. 2 pages
HIS classical good looks and dapper image have won him fans around the world. But away from the cameras, Jude Law would appear to lack some of that star presence. Tired and dishevelled after a long flight, the British actor found himself...
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The New York Observer
Curious Quasi-Memoir From a Superlative Writer
11/26/2006: 1,393 words, approx. 5 pages
The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “America”—in quotes because the view from up there is actually only...
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The New York Observer
Curious Quasi-Memoir From a Superlative Writer
11/26/2006: 1,393 words, approx. 5 pages
The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “America”—in quotes because the view from up there is actually...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Laura Green
11,014 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Green addresses the concepts of gender relations and androgyny in A Pair of Blue Eyes and Jude the Obscure.
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Critical Essay by Kathleen Blake
9,810 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Blake probes Hardy's portrayal of the feminine in Jude the Obscure, noting that Sue Bridehead, in repressing her sexual urges as part of a "deliberate effort at widening her possibilities" represents "a daring and plausible try at personal liberation."
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Critical Essay by William R. Goetz
9,618 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Goetz explores elements of Jude the Obscure that form a critique of marriage.
 


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