The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament

Thomas Hardy

The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
Format
Audio
Publisher
Naxos
Published
15 December 2020
ISBN
9781665059756

The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament

Thomas Hardy

Jocelyn Pierston, a successful sculptor, is helpless in the face of ‘the well-beloved’ the manifestation of perfect womanhood that seems to move like a will-o’-the-wisp from one acquaintance to the next. It shapes his whole life. Where his artistry involves permanence - cold stone objects - his heart is caught by ephemeral beauty. After years spent in London, a return to his rocky birthplace, the Isle of Slingers, sparks Pierston’s extraordinary involvement with three generations of the Caro family. As a reworking of his earlier The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved, it is the last novel that Hardy wrote, in 1897 - not a realist work, but instead a rather fantastical exploration of male desire.

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