Pair Of Blue Eyes

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Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface. Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed & high-spirited Elfride has little experience of the world beyond & becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect Stephen Smith & the older literary man Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals & Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardys life A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events & social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfrides 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? ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.