Title: The pursuit of the well-beloved ; & The well-beloved
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)