Book description
As Baptista travels home to marry her parents' old neighbour, she
encounters her lost lover. They elope together, but tragedy strikes
unexpectedly on their wedding day and she returns to her parents to do
her duty. Will her other, brief love remain a secret? United by the
theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two
thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced
to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic
love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous
love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love,
illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love….
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and
poet. Hardy initially trained as an architect in Dorchester before
moving to London in 1862. In 1870, Hardy met Emma Lavinia Gifford, whom
he married in 1874. Before their marriage he had published four novels
and was earning his living as a writer. More novels followed and in 1878
the Hardys moved from Dorset to the London literary scene.
