by Thomas Hardy · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853262777
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«A Pair of Blue Eyes» is Thomas Hardy's novel published by Wordsworth Editions in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Set between rural Wessex and London, it follows the vivacious young Elfride Swancourt and the suitors who court her attention. Victorian conventions, sexual prejudice and a cliff-top suspense scene shape her fate. The novel has autobiographical echoes: Elfride was inspired by Emma Gifford, Hardy's future wife.
Wordsworth Classics edition with an introduction by Cedric Watts. The novel was originally published in 1873.
For readers of classic Victorian fiction and those wanting to discover Thomas Hardy's early narrative.
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
