A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback Vernon Deyre is a sensitive

Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician

So begins a narrative that spans four generations

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

searching for one soul among countless millions

or your desk

A Pair of Blue Eyes - Wordsworth Classics book cover type:paperback Vernon Deyre is a sensitiveWith 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