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The Well-Beloved

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Part First — A Young Man of Twenty
  3. 31 — I. a Supposititious Presentment of Her
  4. 41 — II. The Incarnation Is Assumed to Be True
  5. 51 — III. The Appointment
  6. 61 — IV. A Lonely Pedestrian
  7. 71 — V. a Charge
  8. 81 — VI. On the Brink
  9. 91 — VII. Her Earlier Incarnations
  10. 101 — VIII. ‘Too Like the Lightning’
  11. 111 — IX. Familiar Phenomena in the Distance
  12. 12Part Second — A Young Man of Forty
  13. 132 — I. the Old Phantom Becomes Distinct
  14. 142 — II. She Draws Close and Satisfies
  15. 152 — III. She Becomes an Inaccessible Ghost
  16. 162 — IV. She Threatens to Resume Corporeal Substance
  17. 172 — V. the Resumption Takes Place
  18. 182 — VI. The Past Shines in the Present
  19. 192 — VII. The New Becomes Established
  20. 202 — VIII. His Own Soul Confronts Him
  21. 212 — IX. Juxtapositions
  22. 222 — X. She Fails to Vanish Still
  23. 232 — XI. The Image Persists
  24. 242 — XII. A Grille Descends Between
  25. 252 — XIII. She Is Enshrouded From Sight
  26. 26Part Third — A Young Man of Sixty
  27. 273 — I. She Returns for the New Season
  28. 283 — II. Misgivings on the Re-Embodiment
  29. 293 — III. The Renewed Image Burns Itself In
  30. 303 — IV. A Dash for the Last Incarnation
  31. 313 — V. on the Verge of Possession
  32. 323 — VI. The Well-Beloved Is — Where?
  33. 333 — VII. An Old Tabernacle in a New Aspect
  34. 343 — VIII. ‘Alas for This Grey Shadow, Once a Man!’

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