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

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I enjoyed every minute of this book, start to finish. That doesn't mean that I liked all of the characters all of the time or that it was a perfect book, it was merely a pleasurable read all the way through.The main reason I wanted to read this particular book is that it's the origin of the term "cliffhanger." Apparently it was originally published in serial form and it does, indeed, leave a character clinging to the side of a cliff at one point. I can see where this was incredibly suspenseful

Before he turned to the exclusive writing of poetry late in his life, Thomas Hardy wrote a series of marvelous novels, some of which many of us were introduced to early in our lives. His novels were written during the Victorian period, a period in which his views were profoundly at odds with the progressive optimism so prevalent within the general public. Rather he focused primarily on rural life in the south of England (Wessex), emphasizing the implacability of fate, decline of rural life and

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

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 later years, Hardy created three categories in which he placed all of his fiction. The largest category, "Novels of Character and Environment," includes the well known core of his oeuvre also known as the

(view spoiler)[Women don't fare too well in the Hardy novels I have read. (hide spoiler)]

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