- Fiction, Adultery, Astronomical observatories, Social classes
"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'."
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- First published
- 1800
- Pages
- 317
- Publisher
- Assembled Stories, IndyPublish.com, 1st World Library
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781595405258
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“On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.”
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. While he regarded himself primarily as a poet who composed novels mainly for financial gain, during his lifetime he was much better known for his novels, such as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, which earned him a reputation as a great novelist. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored trag
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