A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Binding: Paperback
336 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth
Language: English
Level: Advance
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Package Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounce
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
