A Laodicean: A Story of To-day

Name: A Laodicean: A Story of To-day
Author: Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9781802568486

Author: Thomas Hardy
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
ISBN: 9781802568486
Published: 30 August 2025
Imprint: Sovereign

heirloom
modernity
tradition
architectural
love triangle
Victorian society
identity
technological advancement
progress vs. duty
social upheaval

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Heiress Paula Power holds a modern castle and hesitates between architect George Somerset's new age and Captain De Stancy's old blood. Love tangled with progress, loyalty, and a house that keeps changing hands of meaning. Spoken as Hardy when modernity is a courtship as much as a machine.

Author

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) gave English literature its most unforgettable tragic landscapes — the imagined county of Wessex, where heath, village, and market town hold the fate of ordinary lives. In Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Far from the Madding Crowd, he wrote characters undone by chance, desire, and the hard edges of Victorian society.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781910558027