Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-25 with total page 494 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 written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Story of To-Day explores the conflict between tradition and modernity in Britain. Paula Power hires two architects to renovate her medieval castle. The plot involves such modern contrivances as falsified telegrams and faked photographs....
Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of To Day Illustrated written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Laodicean or The Castle of the De Stancys.
Download or read book A Laodicean A Story of To day written by Thomas Hardy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vacillating young woman is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Dare sat thoughtfully at the window of the studio in which Somerset had left him, till the gay scene beneath became embrowned by the twilight, and the brilliant red stripes of the marquees, the bright sunshades, the many-tinted costumes of the ladies, were indistinguishable from the blacks and greys of the masculine contingent moving among them. He had occasionally glanced away from the outward prospect to study a small old volume that lay before him on the drawing-board. Near scrutiny revealed the book to bear the title 'Moivre's Doctrine of Chances.'The evening had been so still that Dare had heard conversations from below with a clearness unsuspected by the speakers themselves; and among the dialogues which thus reached his ears was that between Somerset and Havill on their professional rivalry. When they parted, and Somerset had mingled with the throng, Havill went to a seat at a distance. Afterwards he rose, and walked away; but on the bench he had quitted there remained a small object resembling a book or leather case.
Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of Today written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Laodicean: a Story of Today by Thomas Hardy
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paula Power, the daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions a young architect from London, George Somerset, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula. But Paula, the Laodicean of the title, meaning a person who is lukewarm or halfhearted, is torn between George's admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-looking outlook. Paula's vacillation in her romantic life is also reflected in her views about religion, politics, and social progress, a dilemma faced by people in the Victorian era as industrialization was beginning to greatly change their lives. Paula will have to decide between the two men, however, or risk losing them both.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sun blazed down and down, till it was within half-an-hour of its setting; but the sketcher still lingered at his occupation of measuring and copying the chevroned doorway—a bold and quaint example of a transitional style of architecture, which formed the tower entrance to an English village church. The graveyard being quite open on its western side, the tweed-clad figure of the young draughtsman, and the tall mass of antique masonry which rose above him to a battlemented parapet, were fired to a great brightness by the solar rays, that crossed the neighbouring mead like a warp of gold threads, in whose mazes groups of equally lustrous gnats danced and wailed incessantly. He was so absorbed in his pursuit that he did not mark the brilliant chromatic effect of which he composed the central feature, till it was brought home to his intelligence by the warmth of the moulded stonework under his touch when measuring; which led him at length to turn his head and gaze on its cause.
Download or read book Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive classic literature collection. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts, We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. Also 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. We use state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.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. She is attracted to both men for their different virtues and is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas
Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2023 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Laodicean A Story Of Today written by Thomas Hardy and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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Download or read book A Laodicean a Story of To Day written by Thomas Hardy and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a dream[vague] of medieval nobility.She is attracted to each man for his respectively different virtues.William Dare decides to intervene to promote his father in her affections. He fakes a telegram and a 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......
