Thomas Hardy · 1800
A novel about the romantic and social complications involving an astronomer and a young woman in Victorian England.
Paula Byrne finds it brilliant for its depiction of technological innovations like the telegraph.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“And I do think some of those minor novels are really, really fascinating and sort of not Hardy-esque, you know, Two on a Tower. It's just so fascinating. It's so brilliant…”
Why: Fascinating and brilliant depiction of innovations like the telegraph.
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