{"product_id":"9780679409939","title":"Jude the Obscure","description":"\u003cp\u003eJude's story — his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead — shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause of its frank treatment of human sexuality and its unflinching fatalism, \u003ci\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/i\u003e aroused such a storm of controversy upon its publication in 1895 that, partly in response, Thomas Hardy abandoned the art of novel-writing altogether and devoted the rest of his life to poetry. Though we have come a long way in our social attitudes in the ensuing century, nothing about Hardy's masterpiece has lost its power to shock us and disturb our dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051774918896,"sku":"9780679409939","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679409939_p0.jpg?v=1763607602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679409939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}