WellBeloved心爱
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作者： Thomas Hardy 著
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出版时间： 2000-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 327印刷时间：开本： 32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9781840224054包装： 平装内容简介
This novel, Hardy's last, is quite a delightful tale, almost comical in tone, and its wry, tongue-in-cheek flavor is beautifully realized by reader Robert Powell. It concerns sculptor Jocelyn Pierston and his 40-year quest for the incarnation of the ideal woman. This phantom eludes him as it flits from woman to woman most especially Avice Caro, his sweetheart at 20; then Avice's daughter, Anne Avice, who charms him when he is 40; and finally Avice the third, the granddaughter, whom he courts at 60. Alas, none of these romances reach fruition, and he loses both his artistic abilities and drive and his interest in the old quest. At 62, he can pass for 75, and in his old age he finds an old flame who sees him into his dotage. Hardy classed this work with his "Romances and Fantasies," and it is indeed almost an allegory or fable. Very enjoyable and excellently read, this is a good addition to fiction collections that feature important British writers. Harriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY
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目录
Introduction
THE WELL-BELOVED Purr First
A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY
Author's Preface
1A Supposititious Presentment of Her
2 The Incarnation isAssumed to be True
3The Appointment
4A Lonely Pedestian
5A Charge
6 On the Brink
7 Her Earlier Incarnations
8 'Too Like the Lightning'
9 Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
Part Second
A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY
1 The Old Phantom Becomes Distinct
2 She Draws Close and Satisfies
3 She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
4She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance
5 The Resumption Takes Place
6 The Past Shines in the Present
7 The New Becomes Established
8 His Own Soul Confronts Him
9Juxtapositions
10She Fails to Vanish Still
11 The Image Persists
12 A Grille Descends Between
13 She is Enshrouded from Sight
Part Third A YOUNG MAN OF SIXTY
1 She Returns for the New Season
2 Misgivings on the Re-embodiment
3 The Renewed Image Burns Itself In
4A Dash for the Last Incarnation
5 On the Verge of Possession
6 The Well-Beloved is- Where?
7An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect
8 'Alas for This Grey Shadow, Once a Man!'
THE PURSUIT OF THE WELL-BELOVED
Part First
A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY
1 Relics
2 A Supposititious Presentment of Her
3 The Incarnation is Assumed to be a True One
4 The Lonely Pedestrian
5 A Charge
6 On the Brink
7 Her Earlier Incarnations
8 A Miscalculation
9 Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
10 The Old Phantom becomes Distinct
11 She Draws Close and Satisfies
12She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
A YOUNG MAN OF FORTY
Part Tbird
A YOUNG MAN OF FIFTY-NINE
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