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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (Author)
Other Authors: Taylor, Dennis, 1940- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [London] : Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
Subjects:
Stonemasons > England > Wessex > Fiction.
Adultery > England > Wessex > Fiction.
Social stratification > England > Fiction.
Ambition > Fiction.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.
Wessex (England) > Fiction.
Adultery.
Ambition.
Manners and customs.
Social stratification.
Stonemasons.
England.
England > Wessex.
1800-1899
Romance fiction.
Didactic fiction.
Fiction.
Table of 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.