Bibliograph

A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Alan Manford ; with a new introduction by Tim Dolin

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A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Alan Manford ; with a new introduction by Tim Dolin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A pair of blue eyes

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

419265078

Responsibility statement

Thomas Hardy ; edited with notes by Alan Manford ; with a new introduction by Tim Dolin

Series statement

Oxford world's classics paperback

Summary

Overview: Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St. Juliot, where Thomas Hardy began the book during the first days 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. This novel contains strong autobiographical parallels between the characters and circumstances of Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt

Table Of Contents

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 -- Chronology of Thomas Hardy -- Pair Of Blue Eyes -- Appendix: Opening of the Tinsleys' Magazine edition -- Explanatory notes

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