Two on a TowerLady 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'. |
Contents
VOLUME II | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
CHAPTER XI | |
CHAPTER XII | |
CHAPTER XIII | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
CHAPTER XI | |
CHAPTER XII | |
CHAPTER XIII | |
CHAPTER XIV | |
VOLUME II | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER XIV | |
CHAPTER XV | |
VOLUME III | |
CHAPTER II | |
CHAPTER III | |
CHAPTER IV | |
CHAPTER V | |
CHAPTER VI | |
CHAPTER VII | |
CHAPTER VIII | |
CHAPTER IX | |
CHAPTER X | |
CHAPTER XI | |
CHAPTER XII | |
APPENDIX Preface 1895 | |
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