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Pursuit of the Well-Beloved and the Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy (1998, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140435190

ISBN-139780140435191

eBay Product ID (ePID)1082353

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitlePursuit of the Well-Beloved and the Well-Beloved

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1998

TopicClassics, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorThomas Hardy

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.3 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-147248

Notes byIngham, Patricia

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal823/.8

Grade ToUP

SynopsisIn The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892) and The Well-Beloved (1897), Hardy writes two different 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 a naked Aphrodite. The pursuit finally fixes on three women called Avice Caro--grandmother, mother and daughter--in a way that mixes tragedy and high farce. The books were written one before and one after his "last" novel, Jude the Obscure (1895). Both stories are richly ambiguous but the first shows the successful exercise of masculine power and the second shows women triumphant. The double work, coming at the end of Hardy's long career as a novelist, anticipates modernist writing by offering not merely alternative endings but alternative plots. This edition is the first to provide both separate texts and separate commentaries. In her introduction, Patricia Ingham explores Hardy's preoccupation with contingency and 'might-have-beens' in female-male relationships. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators., 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.

LC Classification NumberPR4750.P87 1997