TY - BOOK AU - Thomas Hardy TI - Jude the Obscure SN - 9781853262616 AV - PR4746 U1 - 823.8 PB - Wordsworth Editions Ltd N2 - 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 ER -