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Two on a Tower Summary
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy is a romantic novel that explores the relationship between Lady Viviette Constantine and Swithin St. Cleeve, a young astronomer. Set against the backdrop of Victorian societal norms, the story delves into themes of love, class disparity, and the conflict between passion and duty.
Two on a Tower Excerpt
Short Summary: Lady Viviette Constantine, a lonely aristocrat, forms a forbidden romantic relationship with Swithin St. Cleeve, a passionate young astronomer. Their love challenges societal conventions and faces numerous obstacles, highlighting the tension between personal desire and social expectations.
"On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex. The spot was where the old Melchester Road was joined by a drive that led round into a park at no great distance off. The footman alighted and went to the occupant of the carriage, a lady about eight- or nine-and-twenty. She was looking through the opening afforded by a field-gate at the undulating stretch of country beyond. In pursuance of some remark from her, the servant looked in the same direction. The central feature of the middle distance was a circular isolated hill, of no great elevation, covered with fir-trees. The trees were all of one size and age, so that their tips assumed the precise curve of the hill they grew upon. This pine-clad protuberance was further marked out by having on its summit a tower in the form of a classical column, which, though partly immersed in the plantation, rose above the tree-tops to a considerable height. Upon this object, the eyes of lady and servant were bent. 'Then there is no road leading near it?' she asked. 'Nothing nearer than where we are now, my lady.' 'Then drive home,' she said after a moment. And the carriage rolled on its way."
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