In "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 with the search for his ideal woman and sculpting the perfect figure of ...

In "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 with the search for his ideal woman and sculpting the perfect figure of a naked Aphrodite.