"sales. It was nominated ""Best Single Drama"" at the British Academy Television Awards. Amini also wrote an adapted screenplay of the 1895 novel ""Jude the Obscure"" by Thomas Hardy. Producer Andrew Eaton commissioned the screenplay in 1995, and it was filmed by Michael Winterbottom as ""Jude"", released in 1996. Amini also wrote a screenplay for another TV movie, ""Deep Secrets"", which aired in 1996. Amini wrote the adapted screenplay for ""The Wings of the Dove"", which was based on the 1902 novel of the same name by Henry James. The film, directed by Iain Softley, was released in 1997 and"
"Hardy provides details of the conception and writing history of the novel, claiming that certain details were inspired by the death of a woman (most likely his cousin, Tryphena Sparks) in 1890. Called ""Jude the Obscene"" by at least one reviewer, ""Jude the Obscure"" received a harsh reception from some scandalized critics. Among the critics was Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield; Hardy later claimed that the bishop had burned a copy. It has been suggested that negative criticism was the reason that Hardy stopped writing novels after ""Jude"", but poet C. H. Sisson describes this ""hypothesis"" as ""superficial and absurd""."
"The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as ""The Crossbow Murder"") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fifth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. James Caplon Answell arranges to visit his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, at his house in London. Hume invites the prospective bridegroom into"
"but that no one notices. The Judas Window The Judas Window (also published as ""The Crossbow Murder"") is a famous locked room mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), writing under the name of Carter Dickson, published in 1938 and featuring detective Sir Henry Merrivale. In a poll of 17 mystery writers and reviewers, this novel was voted as the fifth best locked room mystery of all time. ""The Hollow Man"" also by John Dickson Carr was voted the best. James Caplon Answell arranges to visit his future father-in-law, Avory Hume, at his house in London. Hume"
"he carries them a step farther into the twentieth century. He retains the complex plots and rounded characterizations of Victorian fiction. But adds to Victorian social criticism a new intensity and an expansion of subject matter in, for example, his frank treatment of sexuality and the subjection of women through sexuality (Tess, 1891). Jude the Obscure (1895) is Hardy’s gloomiest and most revolutionary novel. Tess is revolutionary, but not as much as Jude in which Hardy lashes out at all the social arrangements of his time. Jude at the beginning is an intelligent, idealistic working-class young man who studies at"
"the Obscure, as the temporary home of Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead. Oscar Wilde was imprisoned in Reading Gaol from 1895 to 1897. While there, he wrote his letter ""De Profundis"". After his release, he lived in exile in France and wrote ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"", based on his experience of the execution of Charles Wooldridge, carried out in Reading Gaol whilst he was imprisoned there. Ricky Gervais, who is from Reading, made the film ""Cemetery Junction"", which, although filmed elsewhere in the UK, is set in 1970s Reading and is named after a busy junction in East Reading."
"Fawley, Berkshire Fawley is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. The hub of the village is centred east of Lambourn and has a sub-community within its bounds, Little or South Fawley. It includes a depopulated small hill settlement of Whatcombe. Fawley was the poor and depressed home of author Thomas Hardy's maternal grandmother – the main character in ""Jude the Obscure"", stonemason Jude Fawley, lived in a fictional village Marygreen, and a relative, one of his biographers, links the memories of this woman to the book's bleak start. The area is wholly on part of the escarpment"
"and tormented worlds such as Thomas Hardy in ""Jude the Obscure"" or ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"", or George Eliot with ""Adam Bede"" and ""The Mill on the Floss"". There were also more conventional authors such as Matthew Arnold, who in a letter from 1853 says of Charlotte that she only pretends to heartless: '[...] nothing but hunger, rebellion and rage'. In contrast, Mrs Humphry Ward, author of ""Robert Elsmere"" and morality novels, only finds didactic among the works of Charlotte, while she appreciates the happy blend of romance and realism in the works of Emily. There is however nothing that"
"as ""a permanent trap between two people"" from which there is no easy escape. Around 1887, Hardy began making notes for a story about a working-man's frustrated attempts to attend the university, perhaps inspired in part by the scholastic failure and suicide of his friend Horace Moule. From December 1894 to November 1895, a bowdlerised version of the novel ran in instalments in ""Harper's New Monthly Magazine"", originally under the title ""The Simpletons"", then ""Hearts Insurgent"". In 1895, the book was published in London under its present title, ""Jude the Obscure"" (dated 1896). In his Preface to the first edition,"
"There he wrote ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886), ""The Woodlanders"" (1887), and ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891), the last of which attracted criticism for its sympathetic portrayal of a ""fallen woman"" and was initially refused publication. Its subtitle, ""A Pure Woman: Faithfully Presented"", was intended to raise the eyebrows of the Victorian middle classes. ""Jude the Obscure"", published in 1895, met with an even stronger negative response from the Victorian public because of its controversial treatment of sex, religion and marriage. Furthermore, its apparent attack on the institution of marriage caused further strain on Hardy's already difficult marriage because Emma"
"""Jude the Obscure"". More recent critics have also praised the novel. Richard Higgins claims the novel elaborates a ""close examination of the relationship between class and the emotions"", adding that ""these emotions have much to add to conventional class analysis. Many of these emotions are more prosaic than we have been accustomed to observe—more passive frustration, for example, than class rage."" And Adam Roberts argues that the novel uses Chaffrey's fake séance as an expressive metaphor for a Wellsian engagement with questions of sexual desire and disillusionment. Love and Mr Lewisham Love and Mr Lewisham (subtitled ""The Story of a"
"joined the ""Daily Mail"" and later the ""Daily Express"". He also wrote for the gossip weekly ""Society"". His first novel was ""The Hypocrite: A Novel of Oxford and London Life"", published anonymously in 1898. From 1900, he was engaged in writing fiction, producing about 125 novels in the succeeding years. The most famous was ""When It Was Dark"", which reached sales of 500,000 copies. The book describes the attempt by a Jew, the malevolent Constantine Schaube, to overthrow the whole of the Christian world by fraudulently disproving the Resurrection. After its publication, the Bishop of London preached about ""When It"
"Hardy novel ""Jude the Obscure"". Chibnall also drew heavily on Hardy's concept of a ""wrathful god"" for the series. Even the title of the series came from the Dorset setting. Chibnall invented the name ""Broadchurch"" based on two towns in Dorset: ""I thought a lot about the literary heritage of this county. In true Thomas Hardy style I came up with a compound location name of Broadchurch combining the West Dorset hamlets of Broadstone and Whitchurch."" Chibnall wrote the script for ""Broadchurch"" on spec after his work on ""Camelot"" ended. Chibnall had a very unhappy experience working on ""Camelot"", and"
"Fawley and 'the neate and faire habitacion [home] of the Lady Moore,' on 19 November 1644. He stated that the arms of Moore, with the motto 'Regi et legi' were then painted over the porch, together with Moore impaling Twittye, and the motto 'Suum cuique pulchrum.' Fawley is the inspiration for ""Marygreen"" of Thomas Hardy's ""Jude the Obscure"". Jude's surname was Fawley, and he set the novel there because it was the home of Hardy's grandmother, who had a very depressing childhood. The house in which she lived is now called Jude Cottage. William Bradshaw, , vicar of Fawley (1717–1723),"
"Samuel Judah Samuel B. H. Judah (1799- 21 July 1876) was an American author, lawyer and poet. He was once imprisoned for libel. Judah was born in New York City, in 1799, the son of Benjamin S. Judah. he was admitted to the bar in 1825. He practised law in New York City. He died 21 July 1876, also in New York City. His first play, a melodrama, ""The Mountain Torrent"" (1820) was a failure. ""The Rose of Aragorn"" (1822) was another melodrama. He wrote a long romantic dramatic poem ""Odofriede, the Outcast"" the same year. He followed with a"
"poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874), ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886), ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891), and ""Jude the Obscure"" (1895). He ceased writing novels following adverse criticism of this last novel. In novels such as ""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" and ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" Hardy attempts to create modern works in the genre of tragedy, that are modelled on the Greek drama, especially Aeschylus and Sophocles, though in prose, not poetry, a novel not drama, and with"
"of the first decades of the 20th century was Thomas Hardy (1840–1928). Though not a modernist, Hardy was an important transitional figure between the Victorian era and the 20th century. A major novelist of the late 19th century, Hardy, after the adverse criticism of his last novel, ""Jude the Obscure"", concentrated on publishing poetry. On the other hand, another significant transitional figure between Victorians and modernists, the late-19th-century novelist, Henry James (1843–1916), continued to publish major works into the 20th century. James, born in the US, lived in Europe from 1875, and became a British citizen in 1915. Another immigrant,"
"Isadore Twersky Isadore Twersky (born Yitzchak Asher Twersky, October 9, 1930 – October 12, 1997) was an Orthodox rabbi and Hasidic Rebbe, and university professor who held the position of the ""Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy"" at Harvard University, a chair previously held by Harry Austryn Wolfson. Twersky was an internationally recognized authority on Rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy. He was especially known as an international expert in the writings and influence of the 12th-century Jewish legalist and philosopher Maimonides, and Abraham ben David, the Rabad of Posquieres. His best-known works are, ""An Introduction to the Code"
"Shade (novel) Shade is a novel published in 2005 by the Irish novelist and film writer Neil Jordan. The book begins in the 1950s with the brutal murder of the central protagonist, Nina Hardy, at the hands of a mentally and physically scarred veteran of the Second World War. What follows is an explanation of the motivation leading to the murder, of her childhood, her parents' lives, the brutality of war and the aftermath of her demise. The novel's narrative jumps between times and between narrators cohesively. The title itself comes from the shade (or ghost) of Nina Hardy which,"
"Judah Halevi Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi ; ; 1075 – 1141) was a Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher. He was born in Spain, either in Toledo or Tudela, in 1075 or 1086, and died shortly after arriving in the Holy Land in 1141, at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Halevi is considered one of the greatest Hebrew poets, celebrated both for his religious and secular poems, many of which appear in present-day liturgy. His greatest philosophical work was ""The Kuzari"". Convention suggests that Judah ben Shmuel Halevi was born"
"result of his system of aesthetics, is perhaps the most influential recent philosopher in the history of literature; Thomas Hardy's later novels frequently allude to Schopenhauerian themes, particularly in ""Jude the Obscure"". Schopenhauer also had an important influence on Joseph Conrad. Schopenhauer also had a less specific but more widely diffused influence on the Symbolist movement in European literature. Lionel Johnson also refers to Schopenhauer's aesthetics in his essay ""The Cultured Faun"". Jacques Derrida's entire oeuvre has been hugely influential for so-called continental philosophy and the understanding of the role of literature in modernity. Other works of fiction considered to"
"Joseph Perl Joseph Perl (also ""Josef Perl""; November 10, 1773, Ternopil – October 1, 1839, Ternopil), was an Ashkenazi Jewish educator and writer, a scion of the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment. He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German; in 1819, he published the first Hebrew novel. Born and raised in the Austrian province of Galicia shortly after its annexation in the first partition of Poland, he was a follower of Hasidism in his youth. Later, he turned against Hasidism and became a proponent of Jewish emancipation and Haskalah, although he remained an observant Jew. He is best known for his"
"The Ungodly Farce Den ugudelige farce () is a 2002 novel by Danish writer Svend Aage Madsen. Like most of Madsen's novels it hasn't been published in English. The novel's protagonist is Jesper Fegge, a young jazz enthusiast and wannabe writer who after meeting an American woman named Mabel and hitting his head several times loses his unconscious mind. This means in the book that Jesper can't make any decisions unconsciously anymore and it also gives him the ability to see various outcomes of every decision he makes or doesn't make. So at the beginning of the book he either"
"the Obscure"" appear in many other Hardy novels, as well as in Hardy's life. The struggle against fixed class boundaries is an important link between the novel and Hardy's life, especially concerning higher education and the working class. Although Jude wishes to attend the university at Christminster, he cannot afford the cost involved in studying for a degree, and he lacks the rigorous training necessary to qualify for a fellowship. He is therefore prevented from gaining economic mobility and getting out of the working class. This theme of unattainable education was personal for Hardy since he, like Jude, had not"
"Jaxon Reed portrays the Wandering Jew as an assassin for the Westphalian Courts in his 2018 novel ""Cybershot: An Empathic Detective Novel."" The character stays abreast of technology and uses it against the military and others. Uzbek writer Isajon Sulton published his novel ""The Wandering Jew"" in 2011. In this novel, the Jew does not characterize a symbol of curse; however, they appear as a human being, who is aware of God’s presence, after being cursed by Him. Moreover, the novel captures the fortune of present-day wandering Jews, created by humans using high technologies. 19th century works depicting the legendary"
"""The Mayor of Casterbridge"" (1886), ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" (1891), and ""Jude the Obscure"" (1895). Other significant novelists of this era were Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), George Meredith (1828–1909), and George Gissing (1857–1903). Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning conducted their love affair through verse and produced many tender and passionate poems. Both Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote poems which sit somewhere in between the exultation of nature of the romantic Poetry and the Georgian Poetry of the early 20th century. However Hopkins's poetry was not published until 1918. Arnold's works anticipate some of the themes"
"in which chance has a major role: ""Had Bathsheba not sent the valentine, had Fanny not missed her wedding, for example, the story would have taken an entirely different path."" Indeed, Hardy's main characters often seem to be held in fate's overwhelming grip. For online poems, see ""Poetry collections"" below. In 1898 Hardy published his first volume of poetry, ""Wessex Poems"", a collection of poems written over 30 years. While some suggest that Hardy gave up writing novels following the harsh criticism of ""Jude the Obscure"" in 1896, the poet C. H. Sisson calls this ""hypothesis"" ""superficial and absurd"". In"
"Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (1150 – 22 February 1217), also called HeHasid or 'the Pious' in Hebrew, was a leader of the Chassidei Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany considered different from kabbalistic mysticism because it emphasizes specific prayer and moral conduct. Judah was born in the small town of Speyer in the modern day Rhineland-Palatinate state in Germany in 1150 but later settled in Regensburg in the modern day state of Bavaria in 1195. He wrote ""Sefer Hasidim"" (Book of the Pious), ""Sefer Gematriyot"" (a book on astrology) and ""Sefer Hakavod"""
"The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest The Necromancer; or, The Tale of the Black Forest is a Gothic novel by Ludwig Flammenberg (which is a pseudonym for Carl Friedrich Kahlert) first published in 1794. It is one of the seven 'horrid novels' lampooned by Jane Austen in ""Northanger Abbey"", once thought not to exist except in the text of ""Northanger Abbey"". The novel consists of a series of lurid tales of hauntings, violence, killings and the supernatural featuring the adventures of Hermann and Helfried and the mysterious wizard Volkert the Necromancer, who has seemingly come back from"
"The Judas Goat The Judas Goat is the fifth Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, first published in 1978. A reclusive millionaire, Hugh Dixon, hires Spenser to find the nine members of a terrorist group that bombed a London restaurant where he and his family were dining, resulting in the deaths of his two daughters, his wife and leaving him a paraplegic. Spenser is promised USD$2,500 a head for the apprehension of each of the nine terrorists responsible, dead or alive. Spenser heads to London, England to start his investigation. Running an ad for information in ""The Times"" results in"
"Yosef Tunkel Yosef Tunkel (1881 – August 9, 1949) was a Jewish–Belarusian–American writer of poetry and humorous prose in Yiddish commonly known by the pen name Der Tunkeler or 'The dark one' in Yiddish. Born into the family of a poor teacher in Babruysk (in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire), Tunkel was a sickly child whose drawing ability prompted charitable members of the community to send him to art school in Vilno. He finished his studies in 1899 and, too short sighted to be a painter, turned to writing. His poetry was first published in ""Der yud"" (Warsaw)"
"Sue in freezing weather, Jude becomes seriously ill and dies within the year in Christminster, thwarted in his ambition to achieve fame in his studies as well as in his love. It is revealed that Sue has grown ""staid and worn"" with Phillotson. Arabella fails to mourn Jude's passing, instead setting the stage to ensnare her next suitor. The events of ""Jude the Obscure"" occur over a 19-year period, but no dates are specifically given in the novel. Aged 11 at the beginning of the novel, by the time of his death Jude seems much older than his thirty years"
"Antonio Bresciani (writer) Antonio Bresciani (24 July 1798 – 14 March 1862) was an Italian Jesuit priest and writer, mostly known for his reactionary diatribes against liberalism and the Risorgimento. The Marxist intellectual Antonio Gramsci used the terms ""Brescianism"" and ""Father Bresciani's progeny"" to describe literature of a conservative and populist bent. Bresciani's theories are characteristic of the ""paranoid style"" in politics, positing a Satanic conspiracy among secret societies and Jews to undermine the Christian order. Bresciani's highly popular novel 1850 novel ""L'Ebreo di Verona"" (The Jew of Verona) shaped religious anti-Semitism for decades in Italy, as did his work"