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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE
CHRONOLOGY: HARDY’S LIFE AND WORKS
Map: The Wessex of the Novels
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTION
FURTHER READING
A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTS
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved & The Well-Beloved
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
CONTENTS
Map: The Isle
PART FIRST: A Young Man of Twenty
CHAPTER I: Relics
CHAPTER II: A Supposititious Presentment of Her
CHAPTER III: The Incarnation is Assumed to be a True One
CHAPTER IV: The Lonely Pedestrian
CHAPTER V: A Charge
CHAPTER VI: On the Brink
CHAPTER VII: Her Earlier Incarnations
CHAPTER VIII: A Miscalculation
CHAPTER IX: Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
CHAPTER X: The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct
CHAPTER XI: She Draws Close, and Satisfies
CHAPTER XII: She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
PART SECOND: A Young Man of Forty
CHAPTER XIII: She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance
CHAPTER XIV: The Resumption Takes Place
CHAPTER XV: The Past Shines in the Present
CHAPTER XVI: The New Becomes Established
CHAPTER XVII: His Own Soul Confironts Him
CHAPTER XVIII: Juxtapositions
CHAPTER XIX: She Fails to Vanish when Closely Confronted
CHAPTER XX: A Homely Medium does not Dull the Image
CHAPTER XXI: A Grille Descends Between the Vision and Him
CHAPTER XXII: She is Finally Enshrouded from Sight
PART THIRD: A Young Man of Fifty-Nine
CHAPTER XXIII: She Returns for the New Season
CHAPTER XXIV: Misgivings on this Unexpected Re-embodiment
CHAPTER XXV: The Renewed Image Burns Itself In
CHAPTER XXVI: He Makes a Dash for the Last Incarnation
CHAPTER XXVII: He Desperately Clutches the Form
CHAPTER XXVIII: He Possesses it: He Possesses it Not
CHAPTER XXIX: The Elusiveness Continues
CHAPTER XXX: He Becomes Retrogressive
CHAPTER XXXI: The Magnanimous Thing
CHAPTER XXXII: The Pursuit Abandoned
CHAPTER XXXIII: He Becomes Aware of New Conditions
THE WELL-BELOVED
Map: The Isle of Slingers
1897 PREFACE
1912 PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART FIRST: A Young Man of Twenty
CHAPTER I: A Supposititious Presentment of Her
CHAPTER II: The Incarnation is assumed to be True
CHAPTER III: The Appointment
CHAPTER IV: A lonely Pedestrian
CHAPTER V: A Charge
CHAPTER VI: On the Brink
CHAPTER VII: Her Earlier Incarnations
CHAPTER VIII: ‘Toο Like the Lightning’
CHAPTER IX: Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
PART SECOND: A Young Man of Forty
CHAPTER I: The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct
CHAPTER II: She Draws Close and Satisfies
CHAPTER III: She becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
CHAPTER IV: She Threatens to resume Corporeal Substance
CHAPTER V: The Resumption takes place
CHAPTER VI: The Past Shines in the Present
CHAPTER VII: The New becomes Established
CHAPTER VIII: His own Soul confronts him
CHAPTER IX: Juxtapositions
CHAPTER X: She Fails to Vanish still
CHAPTER XI: The Image Persists
CHAPTER XII: A Grille descends between
CHAPTER XIII: She is Enshrouded from Sight
PART THIRD: A Young Man Turned Sixty
CHAPTER I: She Returns for the New Season
CHAPTER II: Misgivings on the Re-embodiment
CHAPTER III: The Renewed Image burns itself in
CHAPTER IV: A Dash for the Last Incarnation
CHAPTER V: On the Verge of Possession
CHAPTER VI: The Well-Beloved is – Where?
CHAPTER VII: An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect
CHAPTER VIII: ‘Alas for this Grey Shadow, Once a Man!’
NOTES
The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved (1892)
The Well-Beloved, A Sketch of a Temperament (1897)
APPENDIX: A Note on the Illustrations to The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
GLOSSARY
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