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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Victorian, Dickens, June with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Classics?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Jude the Obscure'
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conversations.value: a description for a book titled Jude the Obscure about lt;DIV&gt, June, Egdon with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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conversations.value: &lt;DIV&gt; the author was born on June 2, 1840. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, the author was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, the author published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels Tess of the D Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet s Corner, in Westminster Abbey. It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy.
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conversations.value: It was as a poet that he wished to be remembered, but today critics regard his novels as his most memorable contribution to English literature for their psychological insight, decisive delineation of character, and profound presentation of tragedy. In his writing, he immortalized the site of his birth Egdon Heath, in Dorset, near Dorchester. Delicate as a child, he was taught at home by his mother before he attended grammar school. At sixteen, the author was apprenticed to an architect, and for many years, architecture was his profession; in his spare time, he pursued his first and last literary love, poetry. Finally convinced that he could earn his living as an author, he retired from architecture, married, and devoted himself to writing. An extremely productive novelist, the author published an important book every year or two. In 1896, disturbed by the public outcry over the unconventional subjects of his two greatest novels Tess of the D Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure he announced that he was giving up fiction and afterward produced only poetry. In later years, he received many honors. He died on January 11, 1928, and was buried in Poet s Corner, in Westminster Abbey.&lt;DIV&gt; the author was born on June 2, 1840.
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conversations.value: Jude the Obscure: The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy\'s fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford.\nAs a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt\'s bakery, with the hope of entering university.\nBut before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant.\nThe marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage.\nBy this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.\nAfter Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later.\nThere, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead.\nBut, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, mr Phillotson, whom she eventually marries.\nHowever, she soon regrets this, because in addition to being in love with Jude, she is physically disgusted by her husband, and, apparently, by sex in general.\nSue soon leaves Phillotson for Jude.\nBecause of the scandal, Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster.\nSue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship.\nThis is because of Sue\'s dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage.\nSoon after, Arabella reappears and this complicates matters.\nBut Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced.\nHowever, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude\'s, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father.\nHe is named Jude and nicknamed "Little Father Time" because of his intense seriousness and moroseness.\nJude eventually convinces Sue to sleep with him and, over the years, they have two children together and expect the third.\nBut Jude and Sue are socially ostracised for living together unmarried, especially after the children are born.\nJude\'s employers dismiss him because of the illicit relationship, and the family is forced into a nomadic lifestyle, moving from town to town across Wessex seeking employment and housing before eventually returning to Christminster.\nTheir socially troubled boy, "Little Father Time", comes to believe that he and his half-siblings are the source of the family\'s woes.\nThe morning after their arrival in Christminster, he murders Sue\'s two children and commits suicide by hanging.\nHe leaves behind a note that simply reads, "Done because we are too menny".\nShortly thereafter, Sue has a miscarriage.\nBeside herself with grief and blaming herself for "Little Father Time"\'s actions, Sue turns to the church that she has rebelled against and comes to believe that the children\'s deaths were divine retribution for her relationship with Jude.\nAlthough horrified at the thought of resuming her marriage with Phillotson, she becomes convinced that, for religious reasons, she should never have left him.\nArabella discovers Sue\'s feelings and informs Phillotson, who soon proposes they remarry.\nThis results in Sue leaving Jude once again for Phillotson.\nJude is devastated and remarries Arabella after she plies him with alcohol to once again trick him into marriage.\nAfter one final, desperate visit to Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year.\nIt is revealed that Sue has grown "staid and worn" with Phillotson.\nArabella fails to mourn Jude\'s passing, instead setting the stage to ensnare her next suitor.\nThe events of Jude the Obscure occur over a 19-year period, but no dates are specifically given in the novel.\nAged 11 at the beginning of the novel, by the time of his death Jude seems much older than his thirty years – for he has experienced so much disappointment and grief in his total life experience.\nIt would seem that his burdens exceeded his sheer ability to survive, much less to triumph.
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conversations.value: Jude the Obscure: The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy\'s fictional county of Wessex), who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford.\nAs a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt\'s bakery, with the hope of entering university.\nBut before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant.\nThe marriage is a failure, and they separate by mutual agreement, and Arabella later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage.\nBy this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.\nAfter Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later.\nThere, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead.\nBut, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, mr Phillotson, whom she eventually marries.\nHowever, she soon regrets this, because in addition to being in love with Jude, she is physically disgusted by her husband, and, apparently, by sex in general.\nSue soon leaves Phillotson for Jude.\nBecause of the scandal, Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster.\nSue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship.\nThis is because of Sue\'s dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage.\nSoon after, Arabella reappears and this complicates matters.\nBut Arabella and Jude divorce and she legally marries her bigamous husband, and Sue also is divorced.\nHowever, following this, Arabella reveals that she had a child of Jude\'s, eight months after they separated, and subsequently sends this child to his father.\nHe is named Jude and nicknamed "Little Father Time" because of his intense seriousness and moroseness.\nJude eventually convinces Sue to sleep with him and, over the years, they have two children together and expect the third.\nBut Jude and Sue are socially ostracised for living together unmarried, especially after the children are born.\nJude\'s employers dismiss him because of the illicit relationship, and the family is forced into a nomadic lifestyle, moving from town to town across Wessex seeking employment and housing before eventually returning to Christminster.\nTheir socially troubled boy, "Little Father Time", comes to believe that he and his half-siblings are the source of the family\'s woes.\nThe morning after their arrival in Christminster, he murders Sue\'s two children and commits suicide by hanging.\nHe leaves behind a note that simply reads, "Done because we are too menny".\nShortly thereafter, Sue has a miscarriage.\nBeside herself with grief and blaming herself for "Little Father Time"\'s actions, Sue turns to the church that she has rebelled against and comes to believe that the children\'s deaths were divine retribution for her relationship with Jude.\nAlthough horrified at the thought of resuming her marriage with Phillotson, she becomes convinced that, for religious reasons, she should never have left him.\nArabella discovers Sue\'s feelings and informs Phillotson, who soon proposes they remarry.\nThis results in Sue leaving Jude once again for Phillotson.\nJude is devastated and remarries Arabella after she plies him with alcohol to once again trick him into marriage.\nAfter one final, desperate visit to Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year.\nIt is revealed that Sue has grown "staid and worn" with Phillotson.\nArabella fails to mourn Jude\'s passing, instead setting the stage to ensnare her next suitor.\nThe events of Jude the Obscure occur over a 19-year period, but no dates are specifically given in the novel.\nAged 11 at the beginning of the novel, by the time of his death Jude seems much older than his thirty years – for he has experienced so much disappointment and grief in his total life experience.\nIt would seem that his burdens exceeded his sheer ability to survive, much less to triumph.
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  The serial gets more and more strained in its struggle to maintain propriety, with its story of two cousins with adopted children'.
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  The serial gets more and more strained in its struggle to maintain propriety, with its story of two cousins with adopted children. The result is to make the townspeople even more unreasonable in objecting to Jude and Sue.
  In my own eyes the sad feature of the attack was that the greater part of the story – that which presented the shattered ideals of the two chief characters, and had been more especially, and indeed almost exclusively, the part of interest to myself – was practically ignored by the adverse press of the two countries; the while that some twenty or thirty pages of sorry detail deemed necessary to complete the narrative, and show the antitheses in Jude's life, were almost the sole portions read and regarded. And curiously enough, a reprint the next year of a fantastic tale that had been published in a family paper2 some time before, drew down upon my head a continuation of the same sort of invective from several quarters.
  I sympathized with him, and assured him honestly that the misrepresentations had been no collusive trick of mine to increase my circulation among the subscribers to the papers in question.
  The difficulties down to twenty or thirty years back of acquiring knowledge in letters without pecuniary means were used in the same way; though I was informed that some readers thought these episodes an attack on venerable institutions, and that when Ruskin College8 was subsequently founded it should have been called the College of.
  Artistic effort always pays heavily for finding its tragedies in the forced adaptation of human instincts to rusty and irksome moulds that do not fit them. To do Bludyer9 and the conflagratory bishop justice, what they meant seems to have been only this: 'We Britons hate ideas, and we are going to live up to that privilege of our native country. Your picture may not show the untrue, or the uncommon, or even be contrary to the canons of art; but it is not the view of life that we who thrive on conventions can permit to be painted.'
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conversations.value: Artistic effort always pays heavily for finding its tragedies in the forced adaptation of human instincts to rusty and irksome moulds that do not fit them. To do Bludyer9 and the conflagratory bishop justice, what they meant seems to have been only this: 'We Britons hate ideas, and we are going to live up to that privilege of our native country. Your picture may not show the untrue, or the uncommon, or even be contrary to the canons of art; but it is not the view of life that we who thrive on conventions can permit to be painted.'
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conversations.value: Artistic effort always pays heavily for finding its tragedies in the forced adaptation of human instincts to rusty and irksome moulds that do not fit them. To do Bludyer9 and the conflagratory bishop justice, what they meant seems to have been only this: 'We Britons hate ideas, and we are going to live up to that privilege of our native country. Your picture may not show the untrue, or the uncommon, or even be contrary to the canons of art; but it is not the view of life that we who thrive on conventions can permit to be painted.'
  His paintings depicted figurative, historical and literary subjects. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours in 1888, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1898 and the Royal West of England Academy in 1903.
  Hardy was careful about the chronology of the story, as is evident in the revisions he made to keep the timing consistent. On the basis of internal and external evidence, we can propose the following approximate chronology. The key facts which orient it are highlighted:
  Sue's father takes her to Christminster, where he worked on St Luke's 'ten years' before Jude's arrival at Christminster (see below, 1876–7); her father 'went away to London afterwards', and Sue either went with him (and then returned to Christminster) or 'remained at Christminster'. Jude aetat 11.
  Sue returns to Phillotson at Marygreen at the time when the 'pretty new school' had been built. According to Lumley-Smith, **a new schoolroom was proposed in 1886** , but then all that happened was the creation of a partition creating two classrooms. Widow Edlin was married ' **Fifty-five years ago** '. Jude dies, aged ' **near thirty years** '.
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conversations.value: Jude dies, aged ' **near thirty years** '.. Widow Edlin was married ' **Fifty-five years ago** '. According to Lumley-Smith, **a new schoolroom was proposed in 1886** , but then all that happened was the creation of a partition creating two classrooms.
  Sue returns to Phillotson at Marygreen at the time when the 'pretty new school' had been built. Jude aetat 11. The key facts which orient it are highlighted:
  Sue's father takes her to Christminster, where he worked on St Luke's 'ten years' before Jude's arrival at Christminster (see below, 1876–7); her father 'went away to London afterwards', and Sue either went with him (and then returned to Christminster) or 'remained at Christminster'. On the basis of internal and external evidence, we can propose the following approximate chronology.
  Hardy was careful about the chronology of the story, as is evident in the revisions he made to keep the timing consistent. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-colours in 1888, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1898 and the Royal West of England Academy in 1903.'
  His paintings depicted figurative, historical and literary subjects. Your picture may not show the untrue, or the uncommon, or even be contrary to the canons of art; but it is not the view of life that we who thrive on conventions can permit to be painted. To do Bludyer9 and the conflagratory bishop justice, what they meant seems to have been only this: 'We Britons hate ideas, and we are going to live up to that privilege of our native country.Artistic effort always pays heavily for finding its tragedies in the forced adaptation of human instincts to rusty and irksome moulds that do not fit them