...home of learning starts to look for a job. In his preface Hardy defines "Jude" as being an attempt "to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision...the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity, and to point, without a mincing of words, the tragedy of unfulfilled aims." It would be difficult to...

...one of the earliest thought of. For a novel addressed by a man to men and women of full age, which attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever,...the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity, and to point, without a mincing of words, the tragedy of unfulfilled aims, I am not aware that there...

...one is as attractive as the other is revolting to the reader of serious temper. The author tells as that his book " attempts to deal unaffectedly with...contrary, it would be uncharitable not to assume that the 4 gratuitous cynicism, and the sullen temper, and the moral perversity of the book, were all affected,...

...fair delineation of what Hardy, in a preface to one of his novels, calls "the fret and fever, delirium and disaster that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity." But the prescribed remedies therefor, dirersi•8oe" KUmere El«ewhere," p. 117. tSce translation,...

...which, as the author warns his reader, ''attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, the derision and disaster, that may press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged with old Apostolic desperation between flesh...

...inclination towards women and presently he is entrapped into a sordid marriage. Jude experiences to the full "the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may...press in the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity";10 and behind the temptation of sexual passion lurks another: the desire for -strong liquor....

...be that Hardy did not wish to hurt a public that had long followed him by further presentations of "the fret and fever, derision and disaster that may...wake of the strongest passion known to humanity." Or it may be that he was so sore at heart over the reception accorded the book he would not venture...

...speaks of Jude the Obscure being « addressed... to men and women of full age », and he says that it « attempts to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever,...the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity ; to tell, without a mincing of words, of a deadly war waged... between flesh and spirit ; and to point...

...its methods, and deliberately attempts to describe the facts of certain aspects of life. He tries " to deal unaffectedly with the fret and fever, derision...disaster that may press in the wake of the strongest passions known to humanity ; to tell without any mincing of words of a deadly war waged with the old...

...towards women and presently he is entrapped into a sordid marriage. Jude experiences to the full " the fret and fever, derision and disaster, that may...the wake of the strongest passion known to humanity "; and behind the temptation of sexual passion lurks another: the desire for strong liquor. Some hostile...