Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Laodicean" (A Story of To-day) by Thomas Hardy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of To day Annotated written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-23 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of To Day Illustrated written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean Or the Castle of the de Stancys a Story of To Day written by Thomas Hardy and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Hardy Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stanceys. 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 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean or The Castle of the De Stancys A Story of To Day written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book A Laodicean or The Castle of the De Stancys A Story of To Day written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Download or read book A Laodicean Or the Castle of the de Stancys A Story of Today written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vacillating young woman is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas. George Somerset is a young architect who stumbles into the life of the lovely Paula Powers. Not only is Paula the heiress of her late father's railroad fortune, she is also the new owner of Stancy Castle, the ancestral home of the De Stancy Family.
Download or read book A Laodicean or The castle of the De Stancys written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of To Day By Thomas Hardy written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of such novels as Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). During his lifetime, Hardy's poetry was acclaimed by younger poets (particularly the Georgians) who viewed him as a mentor. After his death his poems were lauded by Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin. Many of his novels concern tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances, and they are often set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex; initially based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Hardy's Wessex eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd, were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of Today by Thomas Hardy a NOVEL written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!" The usage of "Laodicean" to mean someone lacking commitment comes from a reference in the New Testament: To the angel of the church in Laodicaea write: - "These are the words of the Unchanging One, 'the witness faithful and true, the beginning of the Creation of God': -I know your life; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. If only you were either cold or hot! But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth."No one of Mr Hardy's novels contain more of the facts of his own life than A Laodicean, which was composed on what the author then believed to be his death bed; it was mainly dictated, which I think partly accounts for its difference in style from the other tales... Not only does Mr Hardy's scientific profession speak through the mouths of his characters, but old and beautiful buildings adorn his pages as they do the landscape he loves..... Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.Charles Dickens was another important influence.[page needed] Like Dickens, he was highly critical of much in Victorian society, though Hardy focused more on a declining rural society. While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898. Initially, therefore, he gained fame as the author of novels, including Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's poetry, though prolific, was not as well received during his lifetime. It was rediscovered in the 1950s, when Hardy's poetry had a significant influence on the Movement poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Philip Larkin.Most of his fictional works - initially published as serials in magazines - were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Hardy's Wessex is based on the medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom and eventually came to include the counties of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England.
Download or read book On Thomas Hardy written by Peter Widdowson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a leading and influential critic of Thomas Hardy, brings together for the first time essays representing both his major critical work over the last fifteen years and three entirely new pieces. This volume allows readers to test the force of Widdowson's critical polemic in undispersed form. Readable, engaged and, no doubt, often infuriating, this is a book for all those who still regard Hardy as 'our contemporary'.