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Original Title:	A Pair of Blue Eyes
ISBN:	0192840738 (ISBN13: 9780192840738)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Elfride Swancourt, Stephen Smith, Lord Luxellian

A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

Paperback | Pages: 374 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 6780 Users | 363 Reviews

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Title	:	A Pair of Blue Eyes
Author	:	Thomas Hardy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 374 pages
Published	:	November 3rd 2005 by Oxford University Press (first published 1873)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Literature. 19th Century. Romance. European Literature. British Literature

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Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning 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. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology.

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Unforgettable, one of my favorites. To re read one day.

From BBC radio 4 Extra:Thomas Hardy's partly autobiographical story about the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgroundsJeremy Irons is splendid!!!

For two days I have been in Cornwall, hiding from the world as it becomes scarier and scarier.   What more wild and haunting place to escape to than Cornwall, a place I have longed to be but only visited in Poldark and Doc Martin.  In his preface, Hardy describes Cornwall as  ". . . the region of dream and mystery.  The ghostly birds, the pall-like sea, the frothy wind, the eternal soliloquy of the waters, the bloom of dark purple cast that seems to exhale from the shoreward precipices, in



This is my fourth read from Thomas Hardy and each one I have enjoyed. A Pair of Blue Eyes brings to light many of Hardys repeated themes within his novels: human emotions and conflicts, the nature of love and relationships, an examination of social class structure, and picturesque depictions of rural life and Nature. At the very heart of A Pair of Blue Eyes is a love triangle that involves the three central characters: Elfride Swancourt (I always love Hardys characters name), a blue-eyed, young

Yet another story of love and life by Hardy, he advocates for women and understands them in ways i don't know how but he does, and he is a wizard with words and he knows the sunset and the moonlight and everything in between as passionately as humanly possible. "A lady would have said there was a smell of tobacco in the room, a man that there was not."

I love this Thomas Hardy novel almost as much as Tess of the D'Urbervilles. It is partly autobiographical, with the heroine Elfride based on his first wife Emma Gifford. It is a short, romantic novel with interesting characters and many twists and turns that are unexpected, especially the ending. Well written as are all of Hardy's novels.