Download or read book A Laodicean written by Thomas Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-Day is a novel by Thomas Hardy, first published in 1880-81 in Harper's New Monthly Magazine. The plot exhibits devices uncommon in Hardy's other fiction, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs.