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This novel is set in London and Portland, and follows the life of Jocelyn Pierston, a talented sculptor who has an obsession to find the perfect woman. Unfortunately this proves impossible in his eyes.
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- Jocelyn Pierston: From child hood he believes he has been haunted by 'The well-beloved' an entity from Aphrodite herself. Since the age of nine he flits from lover to lover, each time convinced that she can be the one the only the 'well-beloved'. He even courts 3 generations of women from the same family. Until finally after years of fickleness, as his friend so lightly puts it, he gets his final ironic comeuppance
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- Marcia
- Avice Caro: She is a beautiful and graceful and ignorant girl who falls into Pierston's web. Engaged to marry him and utterly in love, her heart breaks when after refusing to walk with him - for modesty's sake- he abandons her for a more beautiful women.
- Mrs Pierston
- Somers
- Mrs. Pearston
- Mrs Pine-avon
- Nichola
- Henri
- Beal
- Channelcliffe
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Slopeway Well
- England
- East Wake
- Sylvania Castle
- Sandbourne
- Rome
- Budmouth
- Race
- East Quarriers
- Heaven
- America
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A person who differed from the local wayfarers was climbing the steep road which leads through the sea-skirted townlet definable as the Street of Wells, and forms a pass into that Gibraltar of Wessex, the singular peninsula once an island, and still called such, that stretches out like the head of a bird into the English Channel.
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Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 1897
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Publication Date: 1897
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- Dewey: 823.8
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