Two on a Tower
by:
Thomas Hardy (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595405258 (1595405259)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: 1st World Library
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
This is one of Hardy's most obscure books and rightfully so. It is a book for the dedicated Hardy fan. I think that everything that Hardy ever wrote is worth reading and this book is certainly that. It is a doomed romance with an element of comedy set against a celestial back drop. The end about...
bookshelves: spring-2014, radio-4x, published-1882, victorian Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from May 10 to 16, 2014 Classic Serial http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m5sr5 "Ah, my heart her eyes and sheHave taught thee new astrology.Howe'er Love's native hours were set,Whatever star...
I have to agree with many other reviewers: this was not one of Hardy's best. One of Hardy's favorite themes was exploring the social roles of women. While he succeeded in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd, I feel he quite missed the mark in Two on a Tower, It is the story ...
Thomas Hardy said that he wrote this novel “to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe…” To begin the tale, a woman decides to investigate a tower and meets a young astronomer there who introduces her to the wonders of the night ...
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