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A Laodicean: a Story of To-day
A Laodicean: a Story of To-day
A Laodicean: a Story of To-day
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A vacillating young woman is thrust onto the horns of religious and romantic dilemmas.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBooklassic
Release dateJun 18, 2015
ISBN9789635244751
A Laodicean: a Story of To-day
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 in Dorchester, Dorset. He enrolled as a student in King’s College, London, but never felt at ease there, seeing himself as socially inferior. This preoccupation with society, particularly the declining rural society, featured heavily in Hardy’s novels, with many of his stories set in the fictional county of Wessex. Since his death in 1928, Hardy has been recognised as a significant poet, influencing The Movement poets in the 1950s and 1960s.

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