The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved
By (Author) Thomas Hardy
Edited by Patricia Ingham
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
29th September 1997
28th August 1997
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Short stories
823.8
Physical Properties
Paperback
416
Width 129mm, Height 199mm, Spine 24mm
308g
Description
Hardy's two books which were 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.
Author Bio
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.
