Two on a Tower: A Romance (1882) is a romantic melodrama novel by English author Thomas Hardy, which is one of his minor works. Two On A Tower is a story of star-crossed love in which Hardy sets the emotional lives of his two lovers against the background of the stellar universe. In his story of star-crossed lovers, Two On A Tower, Hardy depicts the emotional journeys of his two lovers against the backdrop of the cosmos. When Lady Constantine, an unhappy married woman, falls in love with Swithin St. Cleeve, an astronomer who is ten years her junior, she defies all social norms. The lovers are free to be married after her husband dies, but the revelation of an inheritance keeps them apart. This is the fullest expression of Hardy's passion for science and astronomy, as well as his most thorough treatment of the issue of love across class and age, divides.
Thomas Tough (June 2, 1840-January 11, 1928) was born in England. He was a British author and poet. He was the son of a country carpenter and builder. He practiced architecture before starting with poetry and books. Several of his books, starting with his second, Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), are set in the imaginary county of Wessex. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), his first famous work was followed by The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). Hardy's works were progressively at odds with Victorian morality, and public anger at Jude so disgusted him that he wrote no more books. He got back to poetry with Wessex poems (1898), Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), and The Dynasts (1910), a large poetic drama of the Napoleonic Wars.
