A Laodicean (The World's Classics)
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ISBN: 0192827839 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, January 1992
One of Hardy's most unusual novels, A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aris...
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One of Hardy's most unusual novels, A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aristocratic romance of the past and the energetic technocracy of the modern world. Paula Power's two suitors--a patrician Army officer, and an architect, representative of the "new nobility oftalent and enterprise"--comically illustrate the great social changes that were taking place as Hardy wrote the novel. The World's Classics edition of A Laodicean is unique in its use of the original text of 1881.
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