The Pursuit of the Well-beloved and the Well-beloved
โ Scribed by Hardy, Thomas
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2009;2007
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 844 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
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