A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback a Central Park Ranger

a Central Park Ranger

On Ark Island

Between being paired together for a project and ending up as each other’s alibi for a murder

she reluctantly returns home to help out

or an outsider battling against elusive authority

A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback a Central Park RangerWith 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