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A pair of blue eyes

Thomas Hardy

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 368 pages

A Pair of Blue Eyes is an early novel by Thomas Hardy, a love story about a young woman in Cornwall caught between two suitors. Through questions of social position, fidelity, and fate, it explores the fragility of human feeling. It is worth listening to for its vivid rural atmosphere and carefully sustained emotional tension.

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Opening of the book

A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
by Thomas Hardy

“A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
No more.”
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI

Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL

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Contents

  1. A PAIR OF BLUE EYES
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE
  4. Chapter I
  5. Chapter II
  6. Chapter III
  7. Chapter IV
  8. Chapter V
  9. Chapter VI
  10. Chapter VII
  11. Chapter VIII
  12. Chapter IX
  13. Chapter X
  14. Chapter XI
  15. Chapter XII
  16. Chapter XIII
  17. Chapter XIV
  18. Chapter XV
  19. Chapter XVI
  20. Chapter XVII
  21. Chapter XVIII
  22. Chapter XIX
  23. Chapter XX
  24. Chapter XXI
  25. Chapter XXII
  26. Chapter XXIII
  27. Chapter XXIV
  28. Chapter XXV
  29. Chapter XXVI
  30. Chapter XXVII

and 14 more chapters

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