The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved and The Well-Beloved (Penguin Classics)

Name: The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved and The Well-Beloved (Penguin Classics)
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780140435191

by Unknown Author

416 pages1998Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780140435191

Man-woman relationships Fiction Mothers and daughters in fiction Sculptors Mothers and daughters Sculptors in fiction Man-woman relationships in fiction British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)

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Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and with sculpting the perfect figure of Aphrodite.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1998
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780140435191

About Unknown Author

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.