Two on a tower is a romance, published in 1882 by English author Thomas Hardy.
At the charity shop in my town, I came across the book "Two on a Tower" by Thomas Hardy and I bought it for £1 which is a bargain. I never read a Thomas Hardy book before, this one was my first book by him. Back in Germany where I am from, I never even heard about the English author Thomas Hardy.
In the first chapters, Thomas Hardy talked about astronomy which did not interest me at all. I wanted to stop reading it. Then I said to myself come on, read it even if it's not interesting to you and it can't be all about astronomy.
The story is about two young people, Swithin St Cleeve an astronomer who uses a tower on Lady Constantine's land at Welland. Lady Constantine a young married lady investigates the tower on her own land and meets Swithin St Cleeve on the Tower.
It was on the Milky Way galaxy like stars have crossed for lovers. They both fell in love and they keep meeting each other secretly on the tower.
In my opinion, the book gets interesting in the middle of it and got my full attention and I enjoyed reading it and I could not put it down at all. Lady Constantine of 28, is a wealthy Lady and Swithin is 20 years old, an orphan. It was set in Victorian times with his religion, rules, and society.
Lady Constantine was left for several years on her own devices of her land as her husband went on an expedition to Afrika, this why she felt very lonely and very in need of love. Her husband had died in Afrika, with this news she thought that she is free to marry Swithin St Cleeve.
It was set in Victorian times, and the fact that a woman who is nearly 8 years older loves a younger man, breaks all the rules in this time. But their different class and the age simple divides them apart and all the people around them too. The two protagonists had a very short love romance affair together, but still, they had felt what real love is like. The ending was a bit weird and not happy.
I really enjoyed Thomas Hardy's writing style, but I heard that "Two on a Tower" is not Thomas Hardy's best book, there are better ones. The Tower could be a symbol for both power, solidity, strength, and higher learning.
If you are looking for a good book to read this is one because it is not too long and very appealing.
I told a friend in Germany about this book. I told her that I really liked this book and this got her attention. So, I decided to send it out to her, she was very happy about it. She began reading it and she gave me a feedback - that she really likes it.
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About the Author (Photo by Downey/Getty Images)
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset on 2 June 1840 and died on 11 January 1928, he was a novelist and poet. He was trained as an architect, he started first writing poems, his first novel is “The Poor Man and the Lady” (1867).
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