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Two on a Tower (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2000
by Hardy, Thomas; Shuttleworth, Sally [Editor]; Shuttleworth, Sally [Introduction];
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- Title Two on a Tower (Penguin Classics)
- Author Hardy, Thomas; Shuttleworth, Sally [Editor]; Shuttleworth, Sally [Introduction];
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition New
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, London
- Date 2000-07-01
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0140435360
- ISBN 9780140435368 / 0140435360
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.68 x 5.44 x 0.82 in (19.51 x 13.82 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1140
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Adultery
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00269835
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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'.