TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardy,Thomas
AU  - Shuttleworth,Sally
TI  - Two on a tower: a romance 
T2  - Penguin classics
SN  - 0140435360
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Astronomical observatories
KW  - Social classes
KW  - Wessex (England)
KW  - Didactic fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [xv])
N2  - "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'."--BOOK JACKET
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