A Pair of Blue Eyes Classics

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A Pair of Blue Eyes Classics

Author : Thomas Hardy

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Highlights

English

Language

NA

Edition

0

Pages

9780140432664

ISBN-13

0140432664

ISBN-10

Faber And Faber Penguin India

Publisher

176 mm

Height

110 mm

Width

21 mm

Thickness

Paperback

Binding

Description

The eyes in question belong to Elfride, a literary incarnation of Emma Gifford, Hardys first wife, and are her last and best treasure. Elfrides vitality and beauty exert a strong fascination and influence over men: firstly Stephen Smith, the ingenuous suitor who fails to win her hand, then Henry Knight, whose obsessive insistence on her purity embodies the double stand The eyes in question belong to Elfride, a literary incarnation of Emma Gifford, Hardys first wife, and are her last and best treasure. Elfrides vitality and beauty exert a strong fascination and influence over men: firstly Stephen Smith, the ingenuous suitor who fails to win her hand, then Henry Knight, whose obsessive insistence on her purity embodies the double standards of Victorian morality. But Elfrides inability to act, to shape her own future, is the trait which precipitates her tragic destiny a destiny which is intolerable not only for its victim, but also for those who love her.