373 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1997 by Penguin Books.
The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
3 stars
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Sculptors -- Fiction
- Portland (England) -- Fiction