Jude the Obscure
“Narrator Neville Jason evokes Hardy’s somber tone through his resonant voice and measured pace, eloquently moving the listener through the novel’s descriptive prose…Jason captures the dialects of the region in his vocal characterizations. He is particularly effective in his emphatic performance of the continual bickering between Jude and his first wife, Arabella. Jason’s attention to the intonation of Hardy’s style compels the listener through this unsettling love story.”
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The innocent and naïve Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by the seductive Arabella Donn. But their union is an unhappy one, and Arabella leaves him. Jude’s welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin, Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic freethinker who would be his ideal soul mate if not for her aversion to physical love. When Jude and Sue decide to lead their lives outside marriage, they bring down on themselves all the force of a repressive society.
This fearless and outspoken story caused a furor upon its publication.
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