Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride Swancourt has little experience of the world beyond her remote parish, 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. 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? - ;'Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.'. Elfride is the d.
Publisher:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
General Editor's Preface; Map of Hardy's Wessex; Map of Locations in A Pair of Blue Eyes; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Thomas Hardy; A PAIR OF BLUE EYES; Appendix: The Opening of the Tinsleys' Magazine Edition; Explanatory Notes.
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