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Obsessed artist seeks ideal woman, sculpting love in stone.
The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
29 September 1997
Summary
Hardy’s two books, written one before and one after his ‘last’ novel, Jude the Obscure (1895). 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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435190 |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 September 1997 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 24mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Thomas Hardy
PATRICIA INGHAM is General Editor of all Hardy’s fiction in the Penguin Classics Edition. She is a Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Reader in English and The Times Lecturer in English Language, the University of Oxford.
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