Hardy's two books which were written one before and one after his 'last' novel, Jude The Obscure (1895). 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.
Author Biography
PATRICIA INGHAM is General Editor of all Hardy's fiction in the Penguin Classics Edition. She is a Fellow of St. Anne's College, Reader in English and The Times Lecturer in English Language, the University of Oxford.
