{"product_id":"hardy-thomas-jude-the-obscure-english-library-9780140431315","title":"Jude the Obscure (English Library)","description":"Physical description; 510 p. Includes glossary. \"First published 1896. Published in the Penguin English Library 1978.\" 1984 reprint. Series; Penguin English library. Summary; Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. Review: I was a teenager when I read this book. There was something about Hardy's harsh, fatalistic world that appealed to me then. Despite, or maybe because of, the pessimism, I think I found it rather romantic and I read everything of his that I could lay my hands on. Then I got to Jude. And Jude was just so sad, so unfair, so much about fate shafting a good man in all kinds of ways, that I overdosed on Hardy and could never read him again. But I still remember sitting on my bed and crying my heart out at the injustice of it all. I cried so much my mother came upstairs to check I was all right. I think she was worried about a teenage excess of emotion. Maybe that was what I liked about Hardy all along: you can shamelessly feel as you read him. (Kirkus UK) Subjects; General \u0026amp; literary fiction ; Classic fiction. FICTION \/ Classics. Fiction in English.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":54485721710934,"sku":"9780140431315-V","price":2.47,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53227529404758,"sku":"9780140431315-G","price":2.44,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - acceptable","offer_id":53361577034070,"sku":"9780140431315-B","price":2.39,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780140431315_1_ad45e4b3-7c7e-4507-bd26-d5d3af2315c8.jpg?v=1784106604","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/hardy-thomas-jude-the-obscure-english-library-9780140431315","provider":"momox","version":"1.0","type":"link"}