A Pair of Blue Eyes, Thomas Hardy architecture cruelty and resilience that is

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A Pair of Blue Eyes, Thomas Hardy architecture cruelty and resilience that isA Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy With 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