
The Well-Beloved
- Author:
- Thomas Hardy
- Narrator:
- Leighton Pugh
Audiobook
Audiobook: 25 March 2021
- 3 Ratings
- 3
- Language
- English
- Category
- Classics
- Length
- 6H 39Min
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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