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200 14$aThe well-beloved $ea sketch of a temperament /$fThomas Hardy
210  1$a[Auckland, New Zealand] :$cThe Floating Press,$d1897.
210  4$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (248 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
327   $aTitle; 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
327   $aVI - 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!'
330   $aSculptor 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.
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