![]() But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays-I mean, not by their essential soundness, but by their accidental outcomes. The two other main characters are his earthy wife, Arabella, and his intellectual cousin, Sue. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. 2 Adaptations edit It was adapted for BBC Radio 4 by Katherine Jakeways. 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 little touches and glimpses of vanity by which he shows off his various characters are capital. His satire upon the 'London correspondent' of a provincial paper is excellent. ![]() ![]() “It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man- that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times- whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and re-shape his course accordingly. The most powerful expression of Hardys philosophy, and a profound exploration of mans essential loneliness, Jude The Obscure is a great and beautiful book. He is satirical without being ill-natured. ![]()
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