The well-beloved : a sketch of a temperament / / Thomas Hardy
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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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| Pubblicazione: | [Auckland, New Zealand] : , : The Floating Press, , 1897 |
| 2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823.8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Man-woman relationships |
| Mothers and daughters | |
| Sculptors | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Portland (England) Fiction |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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!' | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The well-beloved |
| ISBN: | 1-77651-965-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789182303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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