A Laodicean

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable and James Tissot. The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything — church or chapel, one suitor or the other — while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-...