Hardy: The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament (Everyman Paperback Classics)

by ThomasHardy (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

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  Jocelyn seeks female prefection, ultimately he and Marcia are alike in that, like the rock of Portland, both have been sculpted by and subjected to the chisellings of time.

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  1998

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  As the last of Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved has generated great scholarly interest recently. Partly autobiographical, it tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston, whose search for the ideal woman in both Portland and London leads him into courtships with a Portland woman, her daughter and her grand-daughter. This edition is the first to recover Hardy's final revisions to the text.