Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Jude the Obscure
The history of this novel (whose birth in its pres ent 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 onward, 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, onward 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 harper's magazine at the end of November, 1894, and was continued in monthly parts.
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