In the canon
The Well-Beloved
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1897
- Pages
- Pages 220
The Isle of Slingers is Portland: a shelf of limestone flung into the Channel, tethered to England by a bank of shingle, and every quarry on it gives up the same white stone. Jocelyn Pierston, a sculptor born there, spends forty years pursuing a woman who was never a woman.
To his Well-Beloved he had always been faithful; but she had had many embodiments.
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