Name: A Laodicean: A Story Of To-day
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9789355844385

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Physical Book

Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

356

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9789355844385

Synopsis "A Laodicean: A Story Of To-day "

Thomas Hardy's novel A Laodicean is subtitled 'a story of to-day', and although the 'to-day' referred to is 1880-1, when the novel was serialised in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, there are several ways in which the novel continues to speak to us as a modern novel. Just as photography can be misused by Will Dare in the novel to give the false impression that George Somerset is in a scandalous state of drunkenness, so the modern tabloids are adept at taking photographs of politicians and celebrities which portray them in a certain (biased and/or false) light. In the novel, new communications networks are brought under close scrutiny.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced in both his novels and his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth

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