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A pair of blue eyes
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A Pair of Blue Eyes follows Elfride Swancourt, a young Englishwoman whose romantic attachments to two very different men unfold against the Cornish coast. Readers drawn to Thomas Hardy and to Victorian romance exploring love, class, and misunderstanding will find it rewarding.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an English novelist, poet and architect. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain such as those from his native South West England.
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