A Laodicean: a story of to-day (1923)

Thomas Hardy
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RepositoryLibraryShelf
Somerset Somerset Studies B 823 HAR
Record Number
GRN0057300
Publication Details
Date
1923
Cartographer
RCN
GRN0057300
Format
Hardback
Height
22.5cm
ix, 481p
Embellishment
Illustrated: photograph and map
Volume Details
Number
17
Title
the works of Thomas Hardy in prose and verse - with prefaces and notes - prose
Subtitle
the Wessex novels III.-novels of ingenuity
Note
First line:
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 author uses real and fictitious place names.
Exon Moor - Exmoor;
Stancy castle - Dunster castle
Budmouth - Weymouth.
Dates
19th century