The well-beloved : a sketch of a temperament /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Auckland] : The Floating Press, [2011]
Temas:
Man-woman relationships > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Sculptors > Fiction.
Relations entre hommes et femmes > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Mères et filles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Sculpteurs > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Man-woman relationships
Mothers and daughters
Sculptors
Portland (England) > Fiction.
England > Portland
Fiction
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 PresentVII
  • 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!'

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