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

Description:

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

Places: Portland (England)