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A Pair of Blue Eyes

Thomas Hardy

Book Overview: 

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. Henry Knight is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .oor they paused wistfully, like children late at school.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men. Elfride had now resigned herself to the overwhelming idea of her lover's sorry antecedents; Stephen had not forgotten the trifling grievance that Elfride had known earlier admiration than his own.

'What was that young man's name?' he inquired.

'Felix Jethway; a widow's only son.'

'I remember the family.'

'She hates me now. She says I killed him.'

Stephen mused, and they entered the porch.

'Stephen, I love only you,' she tremulously whispered. He pressed her fingers, and the trifling shadow passed away, to admit again the mutual and more tangible trouble.

The study appeared to be the only room lighted up. They entered, each with a demeanour intended to conceal the inconcealable fact that reciprocal love was their dominant chord. Elfride perceived a man, sitting with his back towa. . . Read More

Community Reviews

My goodness, Mr Hardy. Although this might not be my favourite, you never disappoint. In fact, you delight and confound me.

I know you write through the lens of the Victorian era with all its repressed sexuality and social norms, but oh boy, your descriptions of the young female characters, in this c

Acest remarcabil roman a condus la afirmarea literara a lui Thomas Hardy precedand cartile care i-au adus consacrarea: "Tess of d'Urbervilles", "Jude, nestiutul", "Departe de lumea dezlantuita" sau "Primarul din Casterbridge", "Idila pe un turn"
"Doi ochi albastri" a aparut in 1873 si infatiseaza o p

Hardy's third published novel, A pair of blue eyes has often overshadowed by the popularity of its successor, far from the adding crowd. Yet it remains notable, not merely for showing the full emergence of those ironies of known work but also for its autobiographical qualities.

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 sm

"These eyes were blue; blue as autumn distance—blue as the blue we see between the retreating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. A misty and shady blue, that had no beginning or surface, and was looked INTO rather than AT."

This is my third Thomas Hardy novel, and I’ve

This was a fast read, and I very much enjoyed it! If you are already a Hardy fan, I heartily recommend reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873); if you aren't, this just might make you one. A Pair of Blues Eyes was the third novel published by Hardy, and the first published under his own name. In his late

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