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With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.

A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.

With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first wife. Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times.

A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers.

A Pair of Blue Eyes

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    A Paperback / softback by Thomas Hardy, Cedric Watts, Dr Keith Carabine

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      Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
      Published 5 December 1995
      ISBN-13 9781853262777
      978-1853262777
      ISBN-10 1853262773
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      Classics Books by Thomas Hardy

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.

      A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic.

      With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma Gifford, who became Thomas Hardy's first wife. Elfride's vivacious nature attracts several lovers, but she is beset by sexual prejudice, and the ensuing ironies reveal the constraints of her times.

      A Pair of Blue Eyes provides an engaging and moving experience for today's readers.

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