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Pages. 3 volumes. A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1873, first serialised between September 1872 and July 1873. It was Hardy's third published novel, and the first not published anonymously upon its first publication. Hardy included it with his "romances and fantasies".
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Jul 27, 2017 · In short, A Pair of Blue Eyes is a fascinating example of Hardy’s early fiction because it foreshadows so many things which he would revisit in his later, better-known work: the tragic wronged heroine, the erotic love triangle, and the way ‘circumstance’ often thwarts our dreams and desires.
3.78. 8,348 ratings573 reviews. 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.
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Apr 11, 2023 · A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by Thomas Hardy about the lives and loves of four people who are affected by the restoration of a medieval church in a remote part of England. The novel explores the themes of romance, melancholy, and nostalgia through the eyes of Elfride, a young girl with a rare and mysterious beauty, and her husband, a clergyman, who is torn between his duty and his passion.
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- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
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A Pair of Blue Eyes was the third of Hardy s novels to be published and the first to be serialised, running in Tinsleys Magazine from the September of 1872 until the July of the following year. It appeared in three-volume form in May 1873, a year after the publication of Under the Greenwood Tree.
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