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Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy. It is regarded as one of his minor works. It is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, set in late Victorian Dorset.
23 de jun. de 2024 · Viviette, enduring a secluded life while her husband is away in Africa, feels drawn to Swithin and helps him financially with his research. When eventually the two fall in love their relationship is to be alternately constrained, encouraged and re-defined by shifting circumstances.
Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery.
11 de oct. de 2007 · two on a tower. I On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
1 de jul. de 2000 · See all formats and editions. In this tale of star-crossed love, 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.
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18 de may. de 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
