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A Pair of Blue Eyes (Paperback)
Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin; Edited by Alan Manford
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Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a
remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy
began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of
his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has
little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with
two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older
literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and
Elfride faces an agonizing choice.
Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes
expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and
social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma
mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this
novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was
established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This
updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and
chronology.
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