TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Thomas TI - The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament AV - PR PY - 2002/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Psychological fiction KW - Mothers and daughters -- Fiction KW - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction KW - Sculptors -- Fiction KW - Portland (England) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Beloved; Release date is 2002-07-01; Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3326 ER -