Norman Vance Ordre des livres

Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude' s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude' s undoing and Sue' s transformation

Tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, who must choose among three suitors in Wessex in the 1840s.