A Pair of Blue Eyes | Novel | Thomas Hardy

A Pair of Blue Eyes novel was authored by Thomas Hardy. Thomas Hardy was an English novelist , poet and short story writer. Thomas hardy become born on 2 june 1840 in HIgher bockhampton, a hamlet within the parish of stinsford to the east of dorchester in dorset, england, wherein his father thomas (1811–1892) labored as a stonemason and local builder. He was Victorian realist inside the tradition of George Eliot, he became inspired each in his novels and in his poetry through romanticism, mainly William Wordsworth. He become distinctly important of a lot in Victorian society, especially on the declining popularity of rural people in Britain, including the ones from his local south west England.

The book describes the love triangle of a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a socially inferior but ambitious young man who adores her and with whom she shares a country background. Henry Knight is the respectable, established, older man who represents London society. Although the two are friends, Knight is not aware of Smith's previous liaison with Elfride.

Elfride finds herself caught in a battle between her heart, her mind and the expectations of the  people around her, her parents and society. When Elfride's father comes to know that his guest and candidate for his daughter's hand, architect's assistant Stephen Smith, is the son of a mason, he immediately orders him to leave. Knight, who is a relative of Elfride's stepmother, is later on the point of seeking to marry Elfride, but ultimately rejects her when he learns she had been previously entangles in affair.

A Pair of Blue eyes was the third novel of Thomas Hardy to be published and the first to bear his own name. It was first serialised in Tinsley's Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873. The novel is prominent for the strong parallels to Thomas and his first wife Emma Gifford. In fact, in early novels of Thomas Hardy, it was probably the most densely populated with autobiographical stories.

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