A Pair Of Blue Eyes — Thomas Hardy
A Pair Of Blue Eyes
Thomas HardyKARBON KİTAPLAR
A Pair Of Blue Eyes
Thomas HardyHardy s third published novel it tells of Elfride Swancourt a young woman from a good family who is drawn into a relationship first with a trainee architect Hardy was here drawing on his own courtship of his wife Emma and then a London book reviewer not to give too much away this reviewer chap will later end up dangling from a cliff gazing into the empty fossilised eyes of a trilobite
Oxford University Press - Classics
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 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 Written at a crucial time in Hardy s life A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was Elfride s 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
Oxford University Press - Classics
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 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 Written at a crucial time in Hardys life A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and 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
Oxford University Press - Classics
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 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 Written at a crucial time in Hardy s life A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was Elfride s 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