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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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Lonely widow Lady Viviette Constantine and young astronomer Swithin St. Cleeve find love under a tower of stars, then face class, secrecy, and a cosmos that will not protect them. Ambition, forbidden closeness, and social risk climb with every night at the telescope. Hardy’s romance of longing measured against the heavens. Spoken as when the stars watch a love that society will not bless, and silence becomes its own danger.

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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