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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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ISBN: 9781514807002
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Languages : en
Pages : 162
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A Laodicean is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1881, by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. Set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, the plot exhibits devices uncommon for Hardy, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs.Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who has purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family. She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel.In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, who is the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of the family. Captain De Stancy represents a dream of medieval nobility to Paula.She is attracted to both men for their different virtues but William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections. He fakes a telegram and photograph to make it appear that Somerset is leading a dissolute lifestyle. His subterfuge is discovered by Captain De Stancy's sister Charlotte who has befriended Paula.She decides to tell Paula the truth and Paula pursues Somerset to the continent where he has gone mistakenly believing Paula and the Captain to have been married. She finds him and they are reunited and marry. The castle burns down and Somerset proposes to build a modern house in its place.The last line has Paula summing up her dichotomy of mind between modernity and romantic medievalism, and thus the two men, also emphasising the title "a Laodicean" (someone indifferent or half-hearted) - "I wish my castle wasn't burnt; and I wish you were a De Stancy!"
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368857193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290915861
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Independently Published
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A Laodicean or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day is a novel by Thomas Hardy, Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who had purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family.She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of that family. Captain De Stancy represents to Paula the notion of medieval nobility.She is attracted to each man for his respectively different virtues.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day is a novel by Thomas Hardy, Paula Power inherits a medieval castle from her industrialist father who had purchased it from the aristocratic De Stancy family.She employs two architects, one local and one, George Somerset, newly qualified from London. Somerset represents modernity in the novel. In the village there is an amateur photographer, William Dare, the illegitimate son of Captain De Stancy, an impoverished scion of that family. Captain De Stancy represents to Paula the notion of medieval nobility.She is attracted to each man for his respectively different virtues.William Dare, bastard and unrecognised son of Captain de Stancy, and a thorough wastrel, decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections (solely so that he, Wade, can continue to gamble and live off Paula's income). He fakes a telegram and a photograph to make it appear that Somerset is leading a dissolute lifestyle as a drunken gambler. His subterfuge is discovered by Captain De Stancy's sister Charlotte who has befriended Paula.
Author: Thomas Hardy
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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