Two on a Tower
A Classics, Literature, 19th Century book. But time is short, and science is infinite... Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower //
This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780140435368.In this tale of 'star-crossed' love, Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers 'against the stupendous background of the stellar universe'.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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But time is short, and science is infinite... Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower // There was a certain scientific practicability even in his love-making, and it here came out excellently. Thomas Hardy, Two On A Tower // You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."What monsters may they be?"Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite...
Definitely closer to 4 stars than 3. The shock value of an ending was absurd that I actually laughed..."aah classic Hardy!" It is beautifully written and I liked the prevailing theme of how small our lives are in comparison to the scale of the universe which surpasses our knowledge. You read Thomas Hardy because you don't want to deal with the romanticism, sugar-coated stories that are fed to us on a daily basis, whether through movies or best-selling fiction, and also because you know you're going to get a kick out of his criticisms of Victorian culture. As always, Hardy is a pleasure to read. You get slang, architectural... WTF just happened??? Oh Mr Hardy, your novels are so tempestuous. You act like you're going to give us a charming little love story and then you pull the rug out from us and we smack into the floor with our faces. At least that's what I seemed to have experienced with this...
