Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
Hardy's two versions of a strange story set in the weird landscape of Portland. The central figure is a man obsessed both with the search for his ideal woman and...
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... Doomsday . How should he leave her in the turmoil of a London street ? She seemed quite unprepared for the rattle of the scene . He asked her where her aunt lived . " Bayswater , " said Miss Bencomb . He called a cab , and proposed that ...
Aphrodite was punishing him simply, as she knew but too well how to punish her votaries when they reverted from the ephemeral to the stable mood. This curse of his heart not aging while his frame moved naturally onward, when was it to ...
The Well-beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
Thankfully, each June, Charles and his mother packed the station wagon with canvas totes full of shorts and white sneakers and escaped to her parents' square, damp summer house on Martha's Vineyard, which was full of rag rugs, ...
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NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. Serial version that Hardy later reworked into the longer tale.
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