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Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Start date: September 1, 2020

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Feb 01, 2020 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, read-in-2020, romance, vic-lit, british

According to Thomas Hardy, he wrote this book “to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe…” which seems like an Herculean task, but maybe not if your name is Hardy. This is far from my favorite Hardy book and yet it is still enchanting. Hardy's dialogue is real and witty. His settings are tangible and lovely. His characters are flawed. And I always come away feeling a gut punch. As he often (always?) does, Hardy makes a stron ...more

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Jul 06, 2010 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2014, victorians, audio-books, british-literature, fiction-19th-century

From BBC Radio 4 - Classical Serial:
Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of star-crossed lovers in the West Country.

Free download available at Project Gutenberg.

And the audio version is available at LibriVox.
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