Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy
| dc.contributor | Ingham, Patricia St Annes College University of Oxford Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
| dc.contributor.editor | Ingham, Patricia |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:03:46Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:03:46Z |
| dc.date.created | 1895 |
| dc.date.issued | 1984-03-01 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0539 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/0539 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/0539 |
| dc.description.abstract | Resource deposited with the Oxford Text Archive. |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 799 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English fiction -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Jude the obscure / Thomas Hardy |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 822348 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
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 onwards, 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 onwards into the next year ; the
whole, with the exception of a few chapters, being in
the hands of the publisher by the end of 1894. It
was begun as a serial story in <1Harper's Magazine>1 at
the end of November 1894, and was continued in
monthly parts.
But, as in the case of <1Tess of the d' Urbervilles,>1
the magazine version was for various reasons an
abridged and modified one, the present edition being
the first in which the whole appears as originally
written. And in the difficulty . . .
