Jude the obscure
This is the story of a young country workman obsessed by his ambition to become an Oxford student, interwoven with his fraught relationships with two women.'
Print Book, English, 2004
Broadview ; NBN, Peterborough, Ont., Plymouth, 2004
Fiction
517 pages : map ; 22 cm.
9781551111711, 1551111713
145382055
Acknowledgements and Editorial NoteIntroductionA Note on the TextThomas Hardy: A Brief ChronologyHardy’s Preface (1895), Revised Preface and Postscript (1912)JUDE THE OBSCUREPart First, At Marygreen, I-XIPart Second, At Christminster, I-VIIPart Third, At Melchester, I-XPart Fourth, At Shaston, I-VIPart Fifth, At Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, I-VIIIPart Sixth, At Christminster again, I-XIAppendix A: Major Textual ChangesAppendix B: Comments by HardyAppendix C: Contemporaneous Reviews and a ParodyAppendix D: Hardy’s OutlookAppendix E: Influences and Contexts: Cultural ExtractsAppendix F: Oxford, Jowett, and Educational OpportunityAppendix G: Divorce in Jude the ObscureAppendix H: Map of Wessex Appended to the 1895 Edition of Jude the ObscureSelect Bibliography
Originally published: 1999