Hardy, Thomas,  1840-1928 <br/><br/>
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Beloved  Release date is 2002-07-01 
<br/><br/>Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger  Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament" by Thomas Hardy is a novel serialized in 1892 and published as a book in 1897. It follows Jocelyn Pierston, a celebrated sculptor who searches obsessively for his ideal woman—the "Well-Beloved"—across forty years and three generations of the same family. As he pursues this elusive vision of perfect feminine beauty, shifting his affections from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter, Pierston becomes trapped outside time, unable to settle into the natural cycle of life and love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Psychological fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Sculptors -- Fiction Portland (England) -- Fiction 
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