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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 |
Thomas Hardy
Paperback | Pages: 374 pages Rating: 3.77 | 6780 Users | 363 Reviews
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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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| 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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Ratings: 3.77 From 6780 Users | 363 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books A Pair of Blue Eyes
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, inThis was my second Hardy novel. Both of them were a bit of a slow start, though this one hooked me much faster than The Return of the Native. I never thought I'd be the kind of guy who's a fan of 19th century British romances, but when they're this well-written, I can't help myself. I wanted to know what was going to happen to Elfride and the men in her life.I have so much more to read, but I won't be surprised if I end up liking Thomas Hardy more the Collins, Dickens, any of the Brontes, or
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."
This is a novel I would highly recommend to everybody, not only to Hardy's fans. The story is so nicely unfolded and detailed that you can almost feel the wind in that spellbinding cliff scene. This is a simple story, don't expect great literary references or witty remarks. But it is told with so much gentleness and the characters are very well portrayed and developed. Elfride, though, is not as the other Hardy's heroines, she is young, gullible and has grown up protected by her father. I
Perhaps 3.5. An interesting Hardy read - not my favourite but one that certainly has given me a lot to think about. In general I found the characters engaging and the plotting well done, with some stunning scenes, although the ending was a little disappointing.
A Pair of Blue Eyes' claim to fame is that it is the book that brought us the term "cliffhanger". It was first published as a serialized novel, and one of the chapters ends with a man literally dangling off the edge of a remote cliff with no trees or rope in sight as a rescue aid and his only hope the brawn of his young woman companion. The book features a love triangle between the wishy-washy Elfride, the douchebag Mr. Knight, and the doe-eyed Stephen. I'm not sure any reader would hope Elfride
Men may love strongest for a while, but women love longest.This is the story of Elfride Swancourt, our blue-eyed heroine. Elfride is torn between two lovers, the young, kind-hearted, socially inferior Stephen Smith, an architect; and much older and scrupulous Londoner, Henry Knight, a literary man and Stephens mentor. She also has to satisfy the expectations of her father, the Rector of Endelstow. A Pair of Blue Eyes is a moving and poignant story about love, social conventions, limitations
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