TY - BOOK AU - Hardy,Thomas TI - Two on a Tower AV - PR PY - 2002/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Adultery -- Fiction KW - Didactic fiction KW - Love stories KW - Social classes -- Fiction KW - Wessex (England) -- Fiction KW - Astronomical observatories -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_on_a_Tower; Release date is 2002-03-01; This etext was prepared from the 1923 Macmillan edition by Les Bowler; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Two on a Tower" by Thomas Hardy is a novel published in 1882. Set in Victorian Dorset, it tells the story of Lady Constantine, an unhappily married aristocrat who falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer ten years younger. Their forbidden romance unfolds against the vast backdrop of the stellar universe, exploring themes of class divide, age difference, and scientific fascination. Hardy sets their emotional lives against the immensity of the cosmos in this controversial tale that defied Victorian social norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3146 ER -