Jude The Obscure

Jude Fawley, an intelligent and sensitive young Wessex schoolboy, dreams of studying at the famous university in Christminster, Hardy’s fictional representation of Oxford. He embarks on years of private study, but his plans are thrown into disarray when he is deceived into marriage and then deserted by the duplicitous Arabella Donn. Jude, still hoping to earn a place at the university, travels to Christminster to work as a stonemason. Here, he falls for his freethinking cousin Sue, but with the pair living together out of wedlock, the pressures of poverty and social disapproval soon threaten to ruin their lives • Full of passion, anger, fatalism and tragedy, Jude the Obscure attacks the inequalities and hypocrisies inherent within Victorian society’s attitudes towards marriage, social mobility, education and the role of women

Thomas Hardy was an English novelist and poet. Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking 'New Woman'. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them

"Джуд Безвестный", последний роман Харди, - это история молодого рабочего, разрушенного частичным осуществлением своей мечты. Разрываясь между своими желаниями жизни тела и жизни разума, представленными двумя женщинами – вульгарной и блистательной Арабеллой и утонченной, но холодной Сью, – Джуд прежде всего стремится к духовной целостности, представленной университетским городом Кристминстер, который отвергает его • Книга на английском языке • Hardy’s last novel is the story of a young working man destroyed by the partial fulfilment of his dreams. Torn between his desires for the life of the body and the life of the mind, as represented by two women – the vulgar and lustrous Arabella and the refined but frigid Sue – Jude longs above all for the spiritual wholeness represented by the university town of Christminster which rejects him

«Джуд Незаметный» – классический роман Томаса Харди. Впервые опубликованный в 1895 году, он повествует о человеке, работающем каменщиком, который отчаянно хочет учиться в университете, но не может позволить себе платить за обучение, застряв в браке без любви • Тема классового неравенства, брака, образования и возможностей, затронутая в книге, не теряет своей актуальности и сегодня. До официальной публикации она была опубликована в журнале, что было обычным делом в 19 веке. Харди наиболее известен своей поэзией, хотя он написал несколько романов • Книга на английском языке • 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

"Джуд Незаметный" - последний и скандально известный роман Томаса Харди, вызвавший волны возмущения в викторианской Англии. Несмотря на строгие нравы того времени, Харди осмелился откровенно написать о сексуальности и обвинить институты брака, образования и религии в несчастье и глубинном одиночестве своих героев, а вместе с ними и всего общества • Каменщик Джуд мечтал о простых вещах - любовь, брак, семья... Но жизнь не похожа на мечту, и единожды сделанный выбор может оказаться неверным. Попытка следовать собственным путем к личному счастью сталкивается с непредсказуемыми и трагическими последствиями • Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!

Джуд Фоли – каменщик, мечтающий об академической карьере. Увы, его мечты терпят крах из-за бедности и несчастливого брака. Незавидность собственного положения и царящее в Кристминстерском университете равнодушие приводят Джуда в смятение. Его единственная надежда на самореализацию – знакомство и отношения со Сью Брайдхед, его свободомыслящей кузиной. Они живут вместе вне брака, отказываясь идти на поводу у викторианской морали. Но жизнь в роли изгоев общества так и не становится счастливым билетом. Когда в их дом приходит беда, горе ломает Сью, а сам Джуд тонет в пучине отчаяния • «Джуд неизвестный», последний роман Томаса Гарди – мрачное, но преисполненное сострадания зеркало переполняющих нашу жизнь неудач и расстройств. В нём отражаются тоска Гарди по духовным ценностям прошлого и вызванное их упадком разочарование

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant • In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier – a clash of cultures between a young, ambitious nation and the Native tribes who have lived on the land for centuries. Colonel Henry Carrington arrives in Wyoming’s Powder River Valley to lead the US Army in defending the opening of a new road for gold miners and settlers. Carrington intends to build a fort in the middle of critical hunting grounds, the home of the Lakota. Red Cloud, one of the Lakota’s most respected chiefs, and Crazy Horse, a young but visionary warrior, understand full well the implications of this invasion. For the Lakota, the stakes are their home, their culture, their lives

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