A laodicean
Author | : Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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'A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day' is a novel by Thomas Hardy. When Paula Power inherits a castle from her father, she hires two architects to renovate it, including George Somerset, who represents modernity. Meanwhile, William Dare, the illegitimate son of an impoverished aristocrat, tries to win Paula's affections by fabricating evidence of Somerset's reckless behavior. Hardy's novel is a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and the clash between old and new.
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Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 382 |
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ISBN | : 1427044678 |
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Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 422 |
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ISBN | : 142704788X |
Author | : Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 384963714X |
In "A Laodicean" (1881) Mr. Hardy became less spontaneous and charming, although more subtle and, perhaps, more powerful. The heroine, Paula Power, the Laodicean, neither hot nor cold, is a most interesting study in feminine psychology. The three leading male characters—Somerset, the architect, Dare, the adventurer, and Captain de Stancy, the scion of a decayed family—are well drawn.
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Total Pages | : 458 |
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ISBN | : 142704144X |
Author | : Томас Харди |
Publisher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 5040837550 |
Author | : Thomas Hardy |
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Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1882 |
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Author | : Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2023-09-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3387024665 |
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author | : Thomas Hardy |
Publisher | : tredition |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2022-05-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3347641124 |
A Laodicean: The Castle of the De Stancys - Thomas Hardy - A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1880–81 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The plot exhibits devices uncommon in Hardy's other fiction, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs. 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. 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. 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. In revenge, Wade burns down the castle using his family's portraits and furniture as kindling; Somerset proposes to build a modern house in its place.