Length6h 25m
About this audiobook
The Well-Beloved (1897) is A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy. The novel tells the story of a sculptor's search for the ideal woman, through three generations of a Portland family. From the Preface: "The peninsula, whereon most of the following scenes are laid, has been for centuries immemorial the home of a curious and well-nigh distinct people, cherishing strange beliefs and singular customs, now for the most part obsolescent. Fancies, like certain soft-wooded plants which cannot bear the silent inland frosts, but thrive by the sea in the roughest of weather, seem to grow up naturally here. Hence it is a spot apt to generate a type of personage like the character imperfectly sketched in these pages—a native of natives—whom some may choose to call a fantast, but whom others may see only as one that gave objective continuity and a name to a delicate dream which in a vaguer form is more or less common to all men, and is by no means new to Platonic philosophers."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length6 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byDavid Beed
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 2, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface - the Well-Beloved
17Chapter 16 - the Well-Beloved
2Chapter 1 - the Well-Beloved
18Chapter 17 - the Well-Beloved
3Chapter 2 - the Well-Beloved
19Chapter 18 - the Well-Beloved
4Chapter 3 - the Well-Beloved
20Chapter 19 - the Well-Beloved
5Chapter 4 - the Well-Beloved
21Chapter 20 - the Well-Beloved
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6Chapter 5 - the Well-Beloved
22Chapter 21 - the Well-Beloved
7Chapter 6 - the Well-Beloved
23Chapter 22 - the Well-Beloved
8Chapter 7 - the Well-Beloved
24Chapter 23 - the Well-Beloved
9Chapter 8 - the Well-Beloved
25Chapter 24 - the Well-Beloved
10Chapter 9 - the Well-Beloved
26Chapter 25 - the Well-Beloved
11Chapter 10 - the Well-Beloved
27Chapter 26 - the Well-Beloved
12Chapter 11 - the Well-Beloved
28Chapter 27 - the Well-Beloved
13Chapter 12 - the Well-Beloved
29Chapter 28 - the Well-Beloved
14Chapter 13 - the Well-Beloved
30Chapter 29 - the Well-Beloved
15Chapter 14 - the Well-Beloved
31Chapter 30 - the Well-Beloved
16Chapter 15 - the Well-Beloved
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