A Pair of Blue Eyes

by Thomas Hardy

Overview

Elfride Swancourt, the daughter of a rector, is loved by Stephen Smith and starts to elope with him, but changes her mind and returns home. Later she falls in love with Henry Knight, but Mrs. Jethway, a spying neighbor, writes Knight of Elfride's former experience ... So begins a tragic series of events culminating in a heart-wrenching climax steeped in the devastating romantic irony typical of Hardy. Published in 1873 and first serialized between September 1872 and July 1873, A Pair of Blue Eyes was Hardy's third novel, but the first to bear his name on publication.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157887452
Publisher:	Enhanced E-Books
Publication date:	02/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	274
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.

Date of Birth:

June 2, 1840

Date of Death:

January 11, 1928

Place of Birth:

Higher Brockhampon, Dorset, England

Place of Death:

Max Gate, Dorchester, England

Education:

Served as apprentice to architect James Hicks