A Laodicean : A Story of To-Day

By Hardy, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0000205452
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Laodicean : A Story of To-Day
Author:	Hardy, Thomas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
PREFACE: The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back to the original order; though this admissible instance appears to have been the only romance formerly recognized by novelists as possible in the case. Whether the following production be a picture of other possibilities or not, its incidents may be taken to be fairly well supported by evidence every day forthcoming in most counties. The writing of the tale was rendered memorable to two persons, at least, by a tedious illness of five months that laid hold of the author soon after the story was begun in a well-known magazine; during which period the narrative had to be strenuously continued by dictation to a predetermined cheerful ending. As some of these novels of Wessex life address themselves more especially to readers into whose souls the iron has entered, and whose years have less pleasure in them now than heretofore, so A Laodicean may perhaps help to while away an idle afternoon of the comfortable ones whose lines have fallen to them in pleasant places; above all, of that large and happy section of the reading public which has not yet reached ripeness of years; those to whom marriage is the pilgrim's Eternal City, and not a milestone on the way. T.H.

Table of Contents
· PREFACE. · BOOK THE FIRST. GEORGE SOMERSET. · I. · II. · III. · IV. · V. · VI. · VII. · VIII. · IX. · X. · XI. · XII. · XIII. · XIV. · XV. · BOOK THE SECOND. DARE AND HAVILL. · I. · II. · III. · IV.