Well-Beloved

A Sketch of a Temperament

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2011
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775454038
• Topic: Literature
• Index: Literature

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 and pester three generations of the women. Will he fulfill his artistic dream? Read The Well-Beloved to find out.

Table of contents

• THE WELL-BELOVED
• 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 Present
• VII - 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!'