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Thomas Hardy, Two Great Novels: Jude The Obscure; The Woodlanders
From back cover: "Rich in tragedy and social history JUDE THE OBSCURE, (Thomas Hardy’s final novel completed in 1895), follows the fortunes of the ambitious stone-mason, Jude Fawley. Together with his true love, Sue Bridehead, he struggles to survive in a world where his unique perceptions and ideas make it impossible for him to live.
THE WOODLANDERS (completed in 1887), deals with the intricacies of passion and sexual feeling between the four main characters of Marty South, Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury and Edred Fitzpiers. The intertwining of these four solitary lives against the background of an isolated rural community, leads to tragedy and continual loneliness."
THE WOODLANDERS (completed in 1887), deals with the intricacies of passion and sexual feeling between the four main characters of Marty South, Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury and Edred Fitzpiers. The intertwining of these four solitary lives against the background of an isolated rural community, leads to tragedy and continual loneliness."
501 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1997
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Thomas Hardy
2,311 books6,773 followersThomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.
The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
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The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
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June 9, 2020
Rating: 3.5; 4 for 'Jude The Obscure' and 3 for 'The Woodlanders'
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