The well-beloved : a sketch of a temperament / Thomas Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Sculptors--Fiction.

Sculptors.

Portland (England)--Fiction.

Portland (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press, 1897.

Summary:

Sculptor Jocelyn Pierston is obsessed by the notion of female beauty -- and he'll travel to the ends of the earth to find a living, breathing model that embodies the ideal that haunts his imagination. His creative quest compels him to hang around the edges of a family of famed British beauties and pester three generations of the women. Will he fulfill his artistic dream? Read The Well-Beloved to find out.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Preface; PART FIRST - A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY; I - A Supposititious Presentment of Her; II - The Incarnation is Assumed to Be True; III - The Appointment; IV - A Lonely Pedestrian; V - A Charge; VI - On the Brink; VII - Her Earlier Incarnations; VIII - 'Too Like the Lightning'; IX - Familiar Phenomena in the Distance; PART SECOND - A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY; I - The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct; II - She Draws Close and Satisfies; III - She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost; IV - She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance; V - The Resumption Takes Place

VI - The Past Shines in the Present VII - The New Becomes Established; VIII - His Own Soul Confronts Him; IX - Juxtapositions; X - She Fails to Vanish Still; XI - The Image Persists; XII - A Grille Descends Between; XIII - She is Enshrouded from Sight; PART THIRD - A YOUNG MAN OF SIXTY; I - She Returns for the New Season; II - Misgivings on the Re-Embodiment; III - The Renewed Image Burns Itself In; IV - A Dash for the Last Incarnation; V - On the Verge of Possession; VI - The Well-Beloved is-Where?; VII - An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect; VIII - 'Alas for this Grey Shadow, Once a Man!'

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77651-965-5

OCLC:

781614869