Two on a Tower
by Hardy, Thomas
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1975. E4 - Book has crease on the front, back and spine, label on the back, chippings on the top and bottom edges and sides, wrinkling on the corners opposite the spine and at the back middle right side, some brown stains on the bottom page edges, browning, light stains, and normal shelf wear otherwise fair. Viviette Constantine, whose notoriously unkind husband Sir Blount Constantine has abandoned her for the delights of hunting in Africa, is a warn and affectionate woman 'languishing for wan of something to do, cherish or suffer for'. So.... Trade Paperback. Fair/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
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'.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EC550BB
- Title
- Two on a Tower
- Author
- Hardy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- FICTION LITERATURE NOVEL
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Trade Paperback
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelf Wear
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