Two On A Tower: A Novel By: Thomas Hardy: Wessex Novels

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Two On A Tower: A Novel By: Thomas Hardy: Wessex NovelsISBN13:9781543127331ISBN10:1543127339Author:Hardy, Thomas (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - Two On A Tower (1882) Is A Novel By English Author Thomas Hardy, Classified By Him As A Romance And Fantasy And Now Regarded As One Of His Minor Works The Book Is One Of Hardy's Wessex Novels, Set In A Parallel Version Of Late Victorian Dorset Plot: Two On A Tower Is A Tale Of Star-Crossed Love In Which Hardy Sets The Emotional Lives Of His Two Lovers Against The Background Of The Stellar Universe The Unhappily Married Lady Constantine Breaks All The Rules Of Social Decorum When She Falls In Love With Swithin St Cleeve, An Astronomer Who Is Eight Years Her Junior Her Husband's Death Leaves The Lovers Free To Marry, But The Discovery Of A Legacy Forces Them Apart This Is Hardy's Most Complete Treatment Of The Theme Of Love Across The Class And Age Divide And The Fullest Expression Of His Fascination With Science And Astronomy Thomas Hardy, Om (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) Was An English Novelist And Poet A Victorian Realist In The Tradition Of George Eliot, He Was Influenced Both In His Novels And In His Poetry By Romanticism, Especially William Wordsworth He Was Highly Critical Of Much In Victorian Society, Though Hardy Focused More On A Declining Rural Society While Hardy Wrote Poetry Throughout His Life And Regarded Himself Primarily As A Poet, His First Collection Was Not Published Until 1898 Initially, Therefore, He Gained Fame As The Author Of Such Novels As Far From The Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor Of Casterbridge (1886), Tess Of The D'urbervilles (1891), And Jude The Obscure (1895) During His Lifetime, Hardy's Poetry Was Acclaimed By Younger Poets (Particularly The Georgians) Who Viewed Him As A Mentor After His Death His Poems Were Lauded By Ezra Pound, W H Auden And Philip Larkin Many Of His Novels Concern Tragic Characters Struggling Against Their Passions And Social Circumstances, And They Are Often Set In The Semi-Fictional Region Of Wessex; Initially Based On The Medieval Anglo-Saxon Kingdom, Hardy's Wessex Eventually Came To Include The Counties Of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire And Much Of Berkshire, In Southwest And South Central England Two Of His Novels, Tess Of The D'urbervilles And Far From The Madding Crowd, Were Listed In The Top 50 On The Bbc's Survey The Big Read Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2017-02-15Weight:0.7 lbsDimensions:0.33'' H x 10'' L x 7.99'' WNumber of Pages:154Language:English

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