Jude the Obscure (Wordsworth Classics)

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Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English, University of Sussex Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.

Review

“The greatest tragic writer among English novelists.”
–Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Rosellen Brown is the author of
Half a Heart, The Autobiography of My Mother, Tender Mercies and
Before and After. She lives in Chicago.