The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141958644
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	02/22/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks