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A Laodicean : A Story of To-day
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Set in Victorian England, this novel follows Paula Power, heiress to an ancient castle, as she hesitates between two suitors amid tensions between tradition and modernity. It will appeal to readers of Thomas Hardy's fiction and of nineteenth-century romance.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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