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Serialized in 1892 and published as a book in 1897, "The Well-Beloved" (full title "The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament") was Thomas Hardy’s last published novel. Following the furore that surrounded the publication of "Jude the obscure" in 1895, Hardy turned his back on novel writing, and devoted himself to his poetry for the remaining thirty years of his life. "The Well-Beloved" is a work that Hardy himself revised several times.
The main setting of the novel, the Isle of Slingers, is based on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England.
"The Well-Beloved" of the title – is an ideal, a spirit which the central character Jocelyn Pierston, believes comes to temporarily inhabit the physical form of subsequent women and girls. Structurally the novel is divided into three sections, charting Jocelyn’s romantic life at twenty, at forty and finally at sixty, the three stages of his romantic education with three generations of women. It is the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston's search for the ideal woman, through three generations of a Portland family.
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GenreRomance, Children's Literature, Young Adult
Length7 hrs
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Publish dateOct 18, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Part the First
3I. A Supposititious Presentment of Her
4II. The Incarnation is Assumed to be True
5III. The Appointment
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6IV. A Lonely Pedestrian
7V. A Charge
8VI. On the Brink
9VII. Her Earlier Incarnations
10VIII. 'Too Like the Lightning'
11IX. Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
12Part the Second
13I. The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct
14II. She Draws Close and Satisfies
15III. She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
16IV. She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance
17V. The Resumption Takes Place
18VI. The Past Shines in the Present
19VII. The New Becomes Established
20VIII. His Own Soul Confronts Him
21IX. Juxtapositions
22X. She Fails to Vanish Still
23XI. The Image Persists
24XII. A Grille Descends Between
25XIII. She is Enshrouded From Sight
26Part the Third
27I. She Returns for the New Season
28II. Misgivings on the Re-embodiment
29III. The Renewed Image Burns Itself In
30IV. A Dash for the Last Incarnation
31V. On the Verge of Possession
32VI. The Well-beloved Is--where?
33VII. An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect
34VIII. 'Alas for This Grey Shadow, Once a Man!'
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