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Two on a Tower
by Thomas Hardy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++
- Seller
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Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
UK: Osgood Mcilvaine, 1895. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Very Good ++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H Macbeth-Raeburn. 1st Edition Thus 1895. 1st printing in the new edition by Osgood of the Works of Thomas Hardy and complete in it's own right. Etching by H Macbeth-Raeburn, with tissue guard to title page and a map of Wessex. With a new preface written by the author for this edition. Book is very good and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Repair to spine top cloth. Contents good. Bookplate to endpaper. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17431
Synopsis
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'.
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- Bookseller
- Lasting Words Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026089
- Title
- Two on a Tower
- Author
- Thomas Hardy
- Illustrator
- H Macbeth-Raeburn
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Osgood Mcilvaine
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 17431
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Lasting Words Ltd
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Northampton, Northamptonshire
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