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The Well-Beloved

A Sketch of a Temperament

by Thomas Hardy

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1897
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  1. Preface

    3:21

  2. Part First - Chapter 1

    9:19

  3. Part First - Chapter 2

    12:43

  4. Part First - Chapter 3

    3:58

  5. Part First - Chapter 4

    8:06

  6. Part First - Chapter 5

    11:54

  7. Part First - Chapter 6

    7:02

  8. Part First - Chapter 7

    12:10

  9. Part First - Chapter 8

    13:47

  10. Part First - Chapter 9

    8:08

  11. Part Second - Chapter 1

    19:16

  12. Part Second - Chapter 2

    12:04

  13. Part Second - Chapter 3

    15:53

  14. Part Second - Chapter 4

    9:01

  15. Part Second - Chapter 5

    6:55

  16. Part Second - Chapter 6

    13:53

  17. Part Second - Chapter 7

    13:42

  18. Part Second - Chapter 8

    8:47

  19. Part Second - Chapter 9

    15:05

  20. Part Second - Chapter 10

    10:56

  21. Part Second - Chapter 11

    10:40

  22. Part Second - Chapter 12

    16:34

  23. Part Second - Chapter 13

    7:46

  24. Part Third - Chapter 1

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  25. Part Third - Chapter 2

    12:38

  26. Part Third - Chapter 3

    14:08

  27. Part Third - Chapter 4

    18:15

  28. Part Third - Chapter 5

    17:04

  29. Part Third - Chapter 6

    22:31

  30. Part Third - Chapter 7

    10:59

  31. Part Third - Chapter 8

    22:16

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Returning to a stone quarrying community beside the English Channel, Jocelyn Pierston finds that familiar places and relationships look different after years in cities. Thomas Hardy's novel opens with the young sculptor calling on the Caro family, where Avice's affectionate greeting becomes an awkward encounter over manners and growing up. The peninsula's steep roads, limestone houses and working quarries give this personal scene a sharply defined setting.

Hardy frames the story as an exploration of an imaginative temperament, with sections following its central figure at twenty, forty and sixty. Pierston questions another Avice about her attachment to a young man and struggles with his own expectations. The interest lies in how memory, artistic ideals and affection alter his view of other people. Readers drawn to psychological fiction can follow that tension alongside Hardy's account of a small coastal community.

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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.

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First published
1897
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
145
Language
English
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Audio read by
Simon Evers