A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback she reluctantly returns home to

she reluctantly returns home to help out

searching for one soul among countless millions

On Ark Island

Even if his heart does race around her

or an outsider battling against elusive authority

A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback she reluctantly returns home toWith 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 Swancourt, is based largely on Emma