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Autore |
Hardy Thomas <1840-1928.> |
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Titolo |
The well-beloved : a sketch of a temperament / / Thomas Hardy |
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[Auckland, New Zealand] : , : The Floating Press, , 1897 |
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2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Man-woman relationships |
Mothers and daughters |
Sculptors |
Portland (England) Fiction |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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!' |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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