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Two on a Tower

Author
Thomas Hardy
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 59 minutes
ISBN
9781802564051
Published
20 March 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • forbidden love
  • astronomy
  • Victorian society
  • class differences
  • widowhood
  • ambition
  • social constraints
  • celestial
  • star-crossed lovers
  • longing

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"Two on a Tower" elevates a tale of star-crossed lovers to the celestial sphere, where Hardy intricately explores the themes of love, class, and the cosmos. Viviette, a lonely, beautiful widow, and Swithin St. Cleeve, an ambitious young astronomer, find their fates intertwined under the watchful gaze of the heavens. Amidst the backdrop of a Victorian society rife with social constraints, their forbidden love story defies the bounds of their worlds. Hardy crafts a poignant narrative that is as much about the universal longing for connection as it is about the infinite mysteries of the stars above.

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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