Jude the obscure /
Thomas Hardy ; with an introduction by J. Hillis Miller.
- New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1992.
- xxxvii, 518 p. : map ; 21 cm.
- Everyman's library .
Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance.