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Title: The Civil War Shelf.(Book review)
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Internet Bookwatch (Newsletter)
Date: May 1, 2010
Publisher: Midwest Book Review
Page: NA

Article Type: Book review

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Elfride is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Cornwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began the book during the first days of his courtship of his first wife Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice. Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was.Formatted for the Amazon Kindle! ... Read more