The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy

Table of 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!'