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After sixteen years in that profession and the publication of his earliest novel Desperate Remedies (1871), he determined to make his career in literature; not, however, before his work as an architect had led to his meeting at St Juliot in Cornwall, Emma Gifford, who became his first wife in 1874.  \nIn the 1860s Hardy had written a substantial amount of unpublished verse, but during the next twenty years almost all his creative effort went into novels and short stories. Jude the Obscure, the last written of his novels, came out in 1895, closing a sequence of fiction that includes Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), Two on a Tower (1882), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) .  \nHardy maintained in later life that only in poetry could he truly express his ideas; and the more than nine hundred poems in his collected verse (almost all published after 1898) possess great individuality and power.  \nIn 1910 Hardy was awarded the Order of Merit; in 1912 Emma died and two years later he married Florence Dugdale. Thomas Hardy died in January 1928; the work he left behind––the novels, the poetry, and the epic drama The Dynasts––forms one of the supreme achievements in English imaginative literature.  \nAlan Manford was formerly Head of English at a Birmingham comprehensive school. For his Ph.D. he prepared a critical edition of A Pair of Blue Eyes and he has published articles and reviews concerning Thomas Hardy, as well as his own writing.  \nTim Dolin is a Research Fellow at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. He is the author of Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel (1997), and George Eliot (2005), and co-editor (with Peter Widdowson) of Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies (2004) . He has introduced Charlotte Brontë’s Villette for Oxford World’s Classics.  \noxford world ’ s classics  \nFor over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics have brought readers closer to the world’s great literature. Now with over 700 titles––from the 4,000-year-old myths of Mesopotamia to the twentieth century’s greatest novels––the series makes available lesser-known as well as celebrated writing.  \nThe pocket-sized hardbacks of the early years contained introductions by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, and other literary figures which enriched the experience of reading. Today the series is recognized for its fine scholarship and reliability in texts that span world literature, drama and poetry, religion, philosophy and politics. Each edition includes perceptive commentary and essential background information to meet the changing needs of readers.  \nOXFORD WORLD’S CLASSICS  \nTHOMAS HARDY  \nA Pair of Blue Eyes  \nEdited with Notes by  \nALAN MANFORD  \nWith a new Introduction by  \nTIM DOLIN  \n1  \n3  \nGreat Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan South Korea Poland Portugal Singapore Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York Text, Note on the Text, Explanatory Notes © Alan Manford 1985 Chronology © Patricia Ingham 2002  \nIntroduction, Select Bibliography © Tim Dolin 2005  \nThe moral rights of","cbCaisudD2cAJ8V6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisudD2cAJ8V6","pdf",1063322,433,"English","# General Editor’s Preface\n## Map of Hardy’s Wessex\n## Map of Locations in A Pair of Blue Eyes\n## Introduction\n## Note on the Text\n## Select Bibliography\n## A Chronology of Thomas Hardy\n## Appendix: The Opening of the Tinsleys’ Magazine Edition\n## Explanatory Notes","[{\"question\":\"Who edited and introduced A Pair of Blue Eyes in this edition?\",\"answer\":\"Alan Manford provided the edited notes, and Tim Dolin wrote the new introduction.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of reader supports are included before the novel text?\",\"answer\":\"The front matter includes maps of Hardy’s Wessex and relevant locations, an introduction, a note on the text, and a select bibliography, along with Hardy’s chronology.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the General Editor’s Preface emphasize about the edition?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on establishing reliable texts by comparing versions and recording variant readings in words, punctuation, and styling, while excluding material Hardy likely did not intend.\"}]","A Pair of Blue Eyes - Volume 1 - Edited Notes and Introduction | PDF",1791758887,667]