A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Hardy, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140435298 ISBN 13: 9780140435290

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry Knight, eventually displace her affections. Knight, however, proves to be an uncompromising moralist who, obsessed with fears about Elfride's sexual past, destroys her happiness.

Writing of the struggle between classes and sexes, Hardy drew heavily on his own relationships, and in the introduction, Pamela Dalziel discovers fascinating parallels between Hardy's life and his art.

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THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928) was recognized, and even revered, as the major literary figure of his time. The majority of his major novels are available in Penguin Classics.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140435298
• ISBN 13: 9780140435290
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Dalziel Pamela
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