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	Jude the Obscure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895.
		Jude and Sue are socially ostracized for living together unmarried, especially after the children are born.
		Jude was first published under the title The Simpletons; and then Hearts Insurgent in the European and American editions of Harper's New Monthly Magazine from December, 1894 until November, 1895.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jude_the_Obscure (660 words)

	Hardy (Thomas) Jude the Obscure Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude wants a straightforward engagement but Sue dreads the iron contract of marriage and the deterioration she assumes will follow a legal marriage.
		Jude receives a letter from Arabella telling of her son by him born in Australia, asking him to take him now that her parents have sent him--Cartlett will not wish to care for him and she does not tell him that the son has come to England (he thinks it is still in Australia).
		Jude feels it is time for them to make the marriage legal, but Sue in her feelings of guilt has resolved that she is still Richard's wife.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/th_judeobscure.html (1955 words)

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		When Jude learnt that there was to be an auction at the house of the Donns he packed his own household goods into a waggon, and sent them to her at the aforesaid homestead, that she might sell them with the rest, or as many of them as she should choose.
		Jude found himself speaking out loud, holding conversations with them as it were, like an actor in a melodrama who apostrophizes the audience on the other side of the footlights; till he suddenly ceased with a start at his absurdity.
		Jude now perceived that, so far as solid flesh went, he had the whole aged city to himself with the exception of a belated townsman here and there, and that he seemed to be catching a cold.
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	Understanding Jude the Obscure: A Novel by Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude the Obscure is not so much a slice of life as it is a slice out of life.
		Jude the Obscure (1895): "After the disappointment of his bitter and foolish first marriage, Jude hears of his mother's suicide by drowning and tries to imitate her.
		Jude the Obscure - Oxford from the Southwest, and The Martyrs' Cross, Oxford.
	www.aresearchguide.com /jude.html (3052 words)

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		Arabella's conduct is 'low' in sexual and in class terms; Jude's 'high' academic hopes refer to both his spiritual ambitions and his social ones; when Sue's 'freedom from everything that's gross' elevates Jude, the terms are social as well as moral.
		Jude contributes to this: just as Christminster is seen by Jude as spiritual, in opposition to ugly utilitarian Marygreen, so Sue is seen as ethereal and pure, in opposition to the fleshly and coarse Arabella.
		But this becomes increasingly a double-bind for Sue: she's loved for her chastity or refinement, rebuked for her frigidity; sex is presented as gross, or as one element in the social contract of marriage, but also as the defining personal commitment.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~www_se/personal/pvm/jude.html (694 words)

	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: A searchable online version at The Literature Network
		Jude The Obscure, an almost unbearably sad story about love and sexual desire mapped into the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century, has come to be recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels.
		jude and Sue takes some advances but in a very reserved way.fled from their former respective marriages,they choose to live as husband and wife and go as far as giving birth to a child.that illegal union is actually offensive to sexual morality that's the reason why it shocked that community.
		Jude has been made aware to killing the pig in such a quick manner, but the previous teaching prevents him from commiting such a bloodthirsty act of letting a pid slowly bleed to death, for the sole sake of profit.
	www.online-literature.com /hardy/jude_obscure (2284 words)

	Jude the Obscure Summary & Essays - Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude the Obscure is the last novel written by Thomas Hardy, an author whose work reflects both his personal life and the intellectual trends of nineteenth-century England.
		Though Jude the Obscure portrays a world in which God appears to be absent, the characters are constantly reacting to religious teaching.
		Jude the Obscure, like many novels of the time, was published serially both in England and the United States.
	www.enotes.com /jude-obscure (1877 words)

	Jude the Obscure Goes To Prison
		Jude Acers, master of chess, begins by energetically calling himself the "greatest that ever lived." He does this with a straight face.
		Jude simultaneously faces a score of inmates in one of the oldest, most elite board games in history.
		The other Jude, circling between the three tables in the middle of the prison gym, is Buddha, lips pursed, all concentration and four-word sentences.
	www.state.nj.us /corrections/NJDOC_newsletter/Issue2No2_SpringFall_2001/html/newsltr_checkmate.html (1201 words)

	'Romanticism in Jude the Obscure
		Jude first sees Sue in a photograph, in which she is wearing "a broad hat with radiating folds under the brim like the rays of a halo" (II i 78) -- thus his first idea of her is of an angel.
		Jude remembers that her figure "was light and slight" (II ii 90); further on, "Sue stood like a vision before him -- her look bodeful and anxious as in a dream, her little mouth nervous, and her strained eyes speaking reproachful inquiry" (III ix 194).
		At this time, Jude "Look[ed] at his loved one as she appeared to him now, in his tender thought the sweetest and most disinterested comrade that he had ever had, living largely in vivid imaginings, so ethereal a creature that her spirit could be seen trembling through her limbs" (III ix 195).
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/0498/0498jude.htm (4766 words)

	Amazon.com: Jude the Obscure (Everyman's Library (Paper)): Books: Thomas Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude Fawley, a poor stone carver with aspirations toward an academic career, is thwarted at every turn and is finally forced to give up his dreams of a university education.
		Jude is an orphan boy with a vision and a passion for life that is cruelly challenged and ultimately thwarted by forces beyond his control.
		Jude is shattered between his religious conviction and aspiration of becoming a priest and his human instinct, until at last he decides he was unfit for such vocation and burns all his theological books.
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	April 5, 2004: Outsiders, Jude the Obscure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude was described to have been a result of a dysfunctional marriage and consequently deemed himself ill-fit for marriage because his parents, like Mary Hardy’s, had split a day following their wedding.
		Jude’s second role as a mason may have been inspired by a Victorian architect named George Edmund Street who constructed the new church at Fawley.
		Perhaps the story of Jude is intended to take place in the 1880s when a “severe report (on the lowest ebb in the school’s efficiency) led to a banning of the babies” (416).
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/E603B/web/ada/E603FINALworks/journal/4_5outsiders-jude.htm (395 words)

	Jude (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jude is a masterpiece as a novel and film.
		Hard to believe that she carried the level of passion and maturity in "Jude" as Sue Bridehead at the ripe age of 20.
		Jude and Sue possess more bravery than most people living today, the tragedy is that they risked everything for their love - which destroyed them and the lives of their children.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0116722 (506 words)

	Jude the Obscure
		Jude The Obscure is one of the new introductions in David Austin's line of apricot/yellow roses.
		Jude, however, is being offered by only a couple of U.S. sources, and heirloom is one of them.
		They have grown Jude the Obscure in their display gardens for a couple of years now, and it performs very well for them.
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	Jude the Obscure
		He made her real for me. Jude emerges as an entirely complex character, a man poorly suited for the life he was born into, and therefore bound for tragedy as are most such in a rigid class-ordered society.
		This abridgement appears designed to compliment a motion picture treatment of Jude the Obscure, starring Kate Winslet as Sue (odd choice for a character who is described as rather ethereal), and therefore, it is heavily slanted towards the Sue/Jude romance.
		That story really sits upon the foundation of Jude the working man's dreams of attending college or being ordained as a preacher at Christminster, his being denied that dream, and all that it means to give that up for Sue, and then lose her as his intellectual companion and lover.
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	Thomas Hardy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hardy had an eye for poignant detail, such as the spreading bloodstain on the ceiling at the end of Tess or little Jude's suicide note; he kept clippings from newspaper reports of real events and used them as details in his novels.
		It was denounced by critics at the time and when Jude the Obscure was published, in 1895, it was met with even stronger negative outcries by the Victorian public for its frank treatment of sex.
		It was referred to as "Jude the Obscene." It was heavily criticized for its apparent attack on the institution of marriage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Hardy (1302 words)

	Heirloom Roses: English Roses
		When I first saw 'Jude the Obscure' bloom in our test and evaluation garden several years ago I knew it was going to be something special.
		Blessed with magnificent fragrance, 'Jude the Obscure' blooms are large, cupped, old-fashioned, and of the highest quality and beauty.
		Austin says "'Jude the Obscure' produces some of the most superb blooms you have ever seen" with the added benefit of its lovely, strong and unusual fragrance.
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	Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy - Penguin UK
		Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him.
		Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furore when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.
		The birds and Jude started up simultaneously, and the dazed eyes of the latter beheld the farmer in person, the great Troutham himself, his red face glaring down upon Jude's cowering frame, the clacker swinging in his hand.
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	TANGMONKEY.COM [ Jude the Obscure ]
		Jude the Obscure was first published in Harper's and Hardy had to severely censor it to make it appropriate for the family magazine.
		Inspired by his teacher at school, Jude dreams of going to university at Christminster (a fictional university that represents Oxford), so he studies and works hard and struggles against all odds...and fails miserably.
		Jude and Sue separate and end up back where they started, their hopes and dreams shattered, their children dead, their lives ruined.
	www.tangmonkey.com /columns/102686570135895.php (712 words)

	Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
		Jude, throwing a last adoring look at the distant halo, turned and walked beside his remarkably well-informed friend, who had no objection to telling him as they moved on more yet of the city -- its towers and halls and churches.
		Jude looked out of the window long before dawn, and perceived that the ground was covered with snow -- snow rather deep for the season, it seemed, a few flakes still falling.
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	Jude the Obscure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In return for that favor, she got to name him and, being a Thomas Hardy fan, chose "Jude the Obscure," as nothing was known of his heritage and very little was known of his past.
		Jennie put years of work into Jude, bringing him along from a racehorse who thought the point of horse show classes was to beat all the other horses when the judge asked for a canter to a regular placer in the top three in both English and Western classes.
		Jude is quite the traveler, too, having been across the country from east-to-west (or vice versa) four times, and north-to-south at least twice.
	www.moonrisestables.com /horses/jude.html (727 words)

	Chapter Eight: Century's End: "The Coming Universal Wish Not to Live
		Possibly, too, Jude thinks, he was meant to fulfill his original desire to be a student at Christminster, and he thrusts himself into the attempt.
		It is hard to believe that they are Jude's, for Jude holds out against failure and loss until the very end when he loses Sue, and even then calls for her on his deathbed.
		Jude is no spectre who escapes pain by dying to life.
	www.victorianweb.org /books/suicide/08.html (7506 words)

	ReadLiterature.Com English Literature - Book Review
		Jude, on the other hand, a view not as noble, simply sees the rigidity of social proscription- the asininity of requiring two human individuals, dynamic and changing, to vow eternal love for each other.
		Here Jude is closer in some respects to Shelley's Romanticism (as is his romantic ideal of Christminster).
		In Jude the Obscure, Hardy anticipates some of the more far-reaching sociological dilemmas placed before humanity by the 20th century.
	www.readliterature.com /R_judetheobscure.htm (550 words)

	Review: Jude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is a film of tremendous scope and emotional depth that uncovers the soul of a novel and brings it to life on the screen.
		Jude effectively captures not only their humanity, but their uniqueness, fashioning a delicate rapport between them and the audience.
		Phillotson is traveling to Christminster to become a scholar, and, with Jude by his side to bid him farewell, he points out the distant place, shimmering and gleaming on the horizon like Camelot.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/j/jude.html (746 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
		Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster.
		It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation.
		Jude the Obscure explores man’s essential loneliness and remains one of Hardy’s most widely read novels.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/9780375757419.html (195 words)

	Jude the Obscure: David Austin Rose
		'Jude the Obscure' is the most vigorous grower of my English Roses.
		'Jude the Obscure' has deep yellow petals with shades of apricot or pink depending on the weather.
		There always seem to be several roses on 'Jude the Obscure'.
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	Florence Boos: Study Questions, Comprehensive Examinations, Bibliographies and Other Materials
		III-1 Jude moves to Melchester to be near Sue.
		Jude has the equivalent male Victorian complex--he sleeps with a woman he despises, contemns himself for the union, is a victim of unverbalized and unwanted drives (his attraction to Arabella inexplicable in novel’s overt terms), and admires Sue for her frigidity even though he complains against it (194, 205, 210, 271, 273, 279, 281)
		The fury aroused by Jude the Obscure was the fury of outraged optimism, not of outraged prudery; the book suggested that life was an unpleasant experience afor all but a privileged or insensitive few and an incoherent experience for all (37).
	www.english.uiowa.edu /courses/boos/questions/hardyjude.htm (2574 words)

	Jude the Obscure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Here is the first view of Christminster Jude would have gotten as he approached from Marygreen.
		Here is the monument to the Protestant martyrs Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley, which is set in Broad Street in Oxford, where the three were burned to death in 1555-56.
		Jude is supposed to meet his cousin, Sue Bridehead, "at the cross in the pavement which just marked the spot of the Martyrdoms." Of course, she balks: "I am not going to meet you just there, for the first time in my life." (Part 2, Chapter 4.)
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