Under the Greenwood Tree - Thomas Hardy

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Summary: Everything brings together Lady Viviette, whose husband disappeared in Africa years ago, and young Swithin, destined for a promising career as an astronomer. But if there are unions written in the stars, this one is thwarted by the human determinisms that the English writer Thomas Hardy always sarcastically depicted. Their social status, their age, and the "irony of life"—here embodied by a misogynistic old uncle who uses his fortune as blackmail to prevent the union—will make separation inevitable...

It is to forget how fleeting passion is that Thomas Hardy chose the enduring celestial spaces as the setting for this tragic story. In Two on a Tower (1882), the illusion of love, struck in its very heart, remains complete.

Genre: Romance, classic

Edition: Cranford Collection

Format: Hardcover

Publication date: 2021

Number of pages: 326

ISBN: Collection ISBN: 9788413296562

Book ISBN: 9788413930268