THE WELL BELOVED
Author(s): THOMAS HARDY
The Well-Beloved is a story of one man's obsessive search for the perfect woman. Jocelyn Pierston is a sculptor. All his life he has been haunted by an image of beauty - the 'well-beloved' - which he yearns for both as an artist and as a lover. Glimpses of her are fleeting, as different women seem to embody this ideal for a time; Pierston grasps but cannot hold his well-beloved. His lifelong search leads to his courtship of three generations of women on the Isle of Slingers (an evocative rendering of the real-life English island of Portland). The last of Thomas Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved is a haunting meditation on art and life.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Archeion Press, LLC
- : UNKNOWN
- : 0.285
- : 11 March 2009
- : 216mm X 140mm X 12mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : THOMAS HARDY
- : Paperback
- : 220
- : black & white illustrations