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Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
Aug 10, 2025 5:30 AM

Author:Thomas Hardy,Dennis Taylor,Patricia Ingham

Jude the Obscure

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.

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Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction

—— Carlos Fuentes

What a unique monument is this book! How its creative genius, critical, free, and human, soars above its age!

—— Thomas Mann

A fluent translation-has energy and clarity-and the rhythm of the telling is compelling

—— Guardian

Indisputably the definitive translation

—— Observer

Cervantes is the founder of the Modern Era. The novelist need answer to no one but Cervantes. Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being, and yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?

—— Milan Kundera

Don Quixote begins as a province, turns into Spain, and ends as a universe. . . . The true spell of Cervantes is that he is a natural magician in pure story-telling

—— V. S. Pritchett

This new translation of the Spanish classic is a marvel-It is impossible not to approve of this book in every respect-I find it impossible to imagine that a better novel will be published this year

—— Daily Telegraph
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