The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament by Thomas Hardy
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"The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament" by Thomas Hardy is a novel serialized in 1892 and published as a book in 1897. It follows Jocelyn Pierston, a celebrated sculptor who searches obsessively for his ideal woman—the "Well-Beloved"—across forty years and three generations of the same family. As he pursues this elusive vision of perfect feminine beauty, shifting his affections from grandmother to daughter to granddaughter, Pierston becomes trapped outside time, unable
to settle into the natural cycle of life and love. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Beloved |
| Credits | Produced by Les Bowler, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Psychological fiction |
| Subject | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sculptors -- Fiction |
| Subject | Portland (England) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 3326 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2002 |
| Last Update | Jan 27, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 710 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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