Two on a Tower
a Romance
$33.86
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2000
Summary
Two on a Tower (1882)
This new edition returns to the 1882 first edition of Hardy’s text.
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 ten years her junior. Her husband’s death leaves the lovers free to marry, but th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435368 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140435360 |
| Author: | Thomas Hardy, Sally Shuttleworth, Patricia Ingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2000 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was born and educated in Dorchester. He embarked on a career in architecture which he was able to give up with the increasing success of his novels. He published sixteen novels, as well as many short stories and poems. After the hostile reaction to JUDE THE OBSCURE in 1895, he stopped writing fiction to concentrate on poetry.
Sally Shuttleworth is a Lecturer in English at the University of Sheffield. She has written a book on George Eliot and 19th-century science.
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