Two on a Tower (Paperback, Revised)

In this tale of 'star-crossed' love, Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers 'against the stupendous background of the stellar universe'.

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'.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 1999
First published:	July 2000
Authors:	Thomas Hardy
Editors:	Sally Shuttleworth
Introduction by:	Sally Shuttleworth
Notes by:	Sally Shuttleworth
Preface by:	Patricia Ingham
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	295
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-043536-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-14-043536-0
Barcode:	9780140435368

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