Name: Two on a Tower
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Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781975964146

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Author

Thomas Hardy

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm

Weight

0.58 kg.

ISBN13

9781975964146

Synopsis "Two on a Tower"

Lady Constantine breaks all the rules of social decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. The tower in question is a monument converted into an astronomical observatory where together the lovers 'sweep the heavens'. Science and romance are destined to collide, however, as work, ambition and the pressures of the outside world intrude upon the pair. In what Sally Shuttleworth calls 'a drama of oppositions and conflicts', Hardy's story sets male desire against female constancy, and 'describes an arc across the horizon of late nineteenth-century social and cultural concerns: sexuality, class, history, science and religion'.

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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