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13 de out. de 2005 · Two years later, while still working in the architecture field, Hardy wrote the unpublished novel The Poor Man and the Lady. During the next five years, Hardy penned Desperate Remedies, Under the Greenwood Tree, and A Pair of Blue Eyes. In 1873, Hardy decided it was time to relinquish his architecture career and concentrate on writing full-time.
31 de out. de 2021 · Thomas Hardy. , - Fiction - 429 pages. A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy - Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of her parents and society. The novel is notable for the strong parallels to Hardy and his first wife Emma Gifford. When Elfride's father finds that his guest and candidate for his ...
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.
A PAIR OF BLUE EYES (1873) A Pair of Blue Eyes is the story of the love of a young architect Stephen Smith and Elfride Swancourt, the daughter of a vicar. On the northern coast of Cornwall the characters of this novel move. Stephen Smith had come to Endlestow to repair a church tower and fell in love with the blue-eyed beautiful daughter of the ...
In “A Pair of Blue Eyes,” Thomas Hardy explores the complexities of love and the pain that can come with it. One of the most prominent themes in the novel is the love triangle between Elfride Swancourt, Stephen Smith, and Henry Knight. Elfride, a young and beautiful woman, finds herself torn between two very different men.
Although A Pair of Blue Eyes, the first novel to carry Hardy’s name, was regarded by earlier critics as a minor work, it occupies a special place in his output. It was first serialised in Tinsley's Magazine in eleven instalments from September 1872 to July 1873, after which Tinsley published the novel in the three-volume form in 1873.
9 de jul. de 2022 · 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 ...
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