Reprint. Originally published in Penguin Classics: London : Penguin Books, 1998.
Summary
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.
Contents
General editor's preface -- Chronology: Hardy's life and works -- Map : The Wessex of the novels -- Bibliographical note -- Introduction -- Further reading -- A note on the history of the text -- Jude the obscure -- Appendix I: 'Postscript' to 1912 Wessex edition -- Appendix II: A note on the serial illustrations -- Appendix III: A note on the novel's chronology -- Appendix IV: List of place name parallels -- Glossary.
