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...When Jude the Obscure appeared, the Victorian public howled with stuck prudishness. "Jude the Obscene," cried one reviewer. The Bishop of Wakefield publicly burned his copy-only, snapped Hardy, because he could not burn the author. But Hardy was hurt more than he admitted. Even before Jude, he had written in his journal: "If this sort of thing continues, no more novel-writing...
Lady from New York. After Jude, he wrote no more novels. In his late 505 Hardy began an entirely new career. As a young man, he had written poetry, and now he went back to it in earnest. In po-:try, he reasoned, he could say almost anything without attracting much public attention, and his novels would bring in money enough to live...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Rumer Godden's A Candle for St. Jude, with Tanaquil LeClercq, Marc Platt...
Taking the same old pot from Shakespeare's rack, British Novelist Rumer Godden has cooked up a fresh batch of literature in it. As readers of her earlier novels (Black Narcissus, A Candle for St. Jude) may expect, the Godden brew is not much more than cambric tea, and though its prose has a refreshing bouquet and its flavor of idyl is cut by lemon slices of irony, the book is still a Tempest in a teapot. Author Godden gracefully recognizes the fact by calling her novel not a Tempest but A Breath...
...piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...