Thomas Hardy 
Two On A Tower 

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.