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Title: A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy, Alan Manford ISBN: 0-19-283482-7 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Underated Hardy classic
Comment: This is one of Hardy's least known works, and is generally not regarded as highly as other titles such as "The Mayor of Casterbridge" or "Far from the Madding Crowd". Personally however it's my favourite Hardy book. I may be biased since it's the first Hardy I read and I was also "involved" with a pair of blue eyes at the time, but somehow it's a little more "reader friendly" than the others I've read (Under the Greenwood Tree & Far from the Madding Crowd) and seems to get you a little more concerned with the characters fates rather than looking for moral pointers or intellectual arguments. Try it - hopefully you'll love it too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain
Comment: I've loved every Hardy book, poem, and short story that I've ever read. He reminds me of our own William Faulkner who surely must have read Hardy because he patterned his style in the same manner (Yoknapatawpha County versus Hardy's Wessex, etc.). The blue-eyed girl, Elfride, reminds me of the main character in a book I'm reading now: Clyde Griffiths in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, also a book describing the conflicts of class and love and, since it's set in the US, lust for money. A long suit of Hardy's is his wonderful quotes from the peasants ("I have no use for a flower that neglect won't kill," and "dead, but wouldn't drop down." The other thing I like is his many references which enrich the story and educate the reader. Therefore I look for editions that have explanatory notes. Then too I like to have a pile of reference books on hand to get his fuller meaning: the Bible, Shakespeare, books on English literature, etc. And last, like all Hardy novels, A Pair of Blue Eyes has plenty of sex (if you can read between the lines). Hardy recognized that strongest of all drives beside the basic ones of survival, and despite what he called the Grundyism of the period, he conveyed that truth in his books. Read this book and any other by Hardy. A lifetime of pleasure awaits you. But of course that's just my opinion.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Hardy Melodrama
Comment: I had forgotten Hardy's unique way of making my jaw drop in the last few pages of his novels. If it's been a while since you've treated yourself to his unrelenting destruction of any hope you may be harboring for his characters, indulge. The man never disappoints a cynic.
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Title: The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy, Dale Kramer ISBN: 0192835041 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Two on a Tower (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Thomas Hardy ISBN: 0460877844 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell ISBN: 0192835173 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters by Thomas Hardy ISBN: 0460876457 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Desperate Remedies: A Novel by Thomas Hardy, Mary Rimmer ISBN: 0140435239 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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