About this story
Your cousin Sue turns back from the registry office at Kennetbridge, and your son's pencil note, "Done because we are too menny," empties the rooms. Forty-five chapters carry Jude from the gold haze of the towers to eleven strikes counted while the town cheers.
How it opens
The schoolroom smelled of chalk, damp coats, and the rope around a travelling trunk.
Richard PhillotsonMarygreen has taught me all it can, Jude, and perhaps less than that.
Your schoolmaster fastened a stack of music inside a wooden case scarred by years.
Choose
Where will you go when the cart reaches the main road?
Is there no work worth doing here?