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A Pair of Blue Eyes

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First published: 1873
Pages: 371

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Preface
3:48
Chapter I
7:07
Chapter II
15:19
Chapter III
14:49
Chapter IV
21:43
Chapter V
19:59
Chapter VI
13:14
Chapter VII
38:11
Chapter VIII
21:34
Chapter IX
21:18
Chapter X
26:14
Chapter XI
29:13
Chapter XII
31:54
Chapter XIII
17:44
Chapter XIV
20:36
Chapter XV
7:26
Chapter XVI
11:31
Chapter XVII
15:27
Chapter XVIII
35:33
Chapter XIX
19:24
Chapter XX
33:23
Chapter XXI
19:13
Chapter XXII
22:14
Chapter XXIII
25:41
Chapter XXIV
8:02
Chapter XXV
19:18
Chapter XXVI
13:32
Chapter XXVII
32:37
Chapter XXVIII
23:19
Chapter XXIX
36:59
Chapter XXX
22:40
Chapter XXXI
17:11
Chapter XXXII
16:24
Chapter XXXIII
15:39
Chapter XXXIV
17:34
Chapter XXXV
12:20
Chapter XXXVI
9:39
Chapter XXXVII
11:00
Chapter XXXVIII
23:24
Chapter XXXIX
19:30
Chapter XL
18:04

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Thomas Hardy drew on his own courtship and his years as a young architect for this early novel, set among the cliffs and churches of coastal Cornwall. Elfride Swancourt, a rector's spirited daughter, finds herself loved by two very different men: Stephen Smith, a gifted architect held back by humble birth, and Henry Knight, his older friend, a severe essayist who judges her past by a harsher standard than he applies to himself. Class prejudice, wounded pride, and the unfair scrutiny placed on women steer the story toward loss. It also holds a famous scene of a man left dangling from a cliff face, often credited with giving the word cliffhanger to the language. A free PDF and EPUB edition is available here.

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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction, set in a half-imagined Wessex, probed fate, class, and the constraints of Victorian society. His major novels are cornerstones of English literature.