A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback So begins a narrative that

So begins a narrative that spans four generations

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she reluctantly returns home to help out

Even if his heart does race around her

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A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback So begins a narrative thatWith a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based largely on Emma