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."
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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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