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Há 2 dias · Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes. Thomas Hardy's partly autobiographical story about the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds.
A Pair of Blue Eyes (which was originally titled A Winning Tongue Had He) was probably outlined the summer of 1871, written the following summer, and publish...
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A Pair of Blue Eyes is een roman van de Engelse schrijver Thomas Hardy. Het werk verscheen voor het eerst in serievorm in het tijdschrift Tinley's Magazine tussen september 1872 en juli 1873. Het was Hardy's derde gepubliceerde roman en de eerste die verscheen onder zijn eigen naam.
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?
1 de dez. de 1995 · A Pair of Blue Eyes, though early in the sequence of Hardy's novels, is lively and gripping. Its dramatic cliff-hanging episode, for example, is at once tense, ironic, feministic and erotic. With settings in Wessex and London, the novel also has some strongly autobiographical features, as the blue-eyed heroine, Elfride Swancourt, is based ...
6 de jun. de 2018 · This is my fourth read from Thomas Hardy and each one I have enjoyed. A Pair of Blue Eyes brings to light many of Hardy’s 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.
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Summary. When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which surrounds him. Although distressed to find that the mystery consists only in the humbleness of his origins, she remains true to their youthful vows. But societal pressures, and the advent of the superior Henry ...
