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One of Hardy's most unusual novels, A Laodicean features a heroine torn between the dilapidated aristocratic romance of the past and the energetic technocracy of the modern world. Paula Power's two suitors—a patrician Army officer, and an architect, representative of the "new nobility of talent and enterprise"—comically illustrate the great social changes that were taking place as Hardy wrote the novel. The World's Classics edition of A Laodicean is unique in its use of the original text of 1881.
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Diego Lopes
reviewed A Laodicean on July 13, 2020
A Laodicean
The least pronounceable of Thomas's novels (LAY-oh-du-SEE-an) is an overlong "romance" exploring one woman's relationship between modernity and antiquity, the former an architect the latter a ramshackle Count. Paula Power's POV is never explored in the novel, leaving her an arch and harried heroine, unbesotted with either suitor until the plot requires she chooses one of them. Half-written and half-dictated on his sickbed, the novel is a curio in the canon and worth reading for fans of the lighter side of Hardy.
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