Jude the Obscure

Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, "Jude the Obscure" is a raging indictment of Victorian society; the censure of this insightful book was almost without precedent in the history of English literature. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

Jude Fawley is a bright but impoverished stonemason who aspires to attend university and become a scholar. H is failure to fulfill the expectations of the two women he loves points to his final tragedy. Concerned with the destructive conventions of marriage and the English class system, Jude the Obscure is a raging indictment of Victorian society; the censure of this insightful book was almost without precedent in the history of English literature.

Introduction
Author's Preface
PART FIRST
At Marygreen
PAR T SECOND
At Christminster 
PART THIRD
At Melchester 
PART FOURTH
At Shaston  193
At AldbrickhaPAmR TanlseTHwhere
PAR T SIX TH
At Christminster Again
Afterword
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text