Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy · 1895A stonemason's thwarted longing for learning and for Sue Bridehead. Read Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy page by page and explore its network of 628 people…The history of this novel (whose birth in its present shape has been much retarded by the necessities of periodical publication) is briefly as follows. The scheme was jotted down in 1890, from notes made in 1887 and onward, some of the circumstances being suggested by the death of a woman in the former year. The scenes were revisited in October, 1892; the narrative was written in outline in 1892 and the spring of 1893, and at full length, as it now appears, from August, 1893, onward into the next year; the whole, with the exception of a few chapters, being in the hands of the publisher by…All books in the ECCE gallery