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Jude Fawley's hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society, and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy's last novel, caused a public furore when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.

Acknowledgements vi (1)
General Editor's Preface vii (3)
Chronology: Hardy's Life and Works x (4)
Map: The Wessex of the Novels xiv (1)
Bibliographical Note xv (1)
Introduction xvi (19)
Further Reading xxxv (2)
A Note on the History of the Text xxxvii
JUDE THE OBSCURE 1 (408)
Notes 409 (57)
Appendix I: `Postscript' to 1912 Wessex Edition 466 (5)
Appendix II: A Note on the Serial Illustrations 471 (3)
Appendix III: A Note on the Novel's Chronology 474 (3)
Appendix IV: List of Place Name Parallels 477 (2)
Glossary 479

‘I’m an outsider to the end of my days!’

Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furor when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships.

This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.