Jude the obscure sparknotes6/10/2023 ![]() It soon emerges, however, that Stephen has been hiding an important secret from the Swancourts something that could put his relationship with Elfride in jeopardy. At first, the vicar approves of Stephen and encourages his daughter to spend time with him. One of these, Stephen Smith, is a young architect whom she meets when he is sent by his employer to survey the church buildings. Although this is not generally noted as being one of his better novels and is certainly one of his least well known, there was something about it that appealed to me – and I would even say that of all the classics I’ve read so far this year, this might be my favourite.Ī Pair of Blue Eyes is the story of Elfride Swancourt, a vicar’s daughter living in a remote corner of England, who is forced to choose between two very different men. A Pair of Blue Eyes was one of his earliest books, originally serialised in Tinsley’s Magazine from September 1872 to July 1873. ![]() I’m loving Thomas Hardy more and more with every book of his that I read. A misty and shady blue, that had no beginning or surface, and was looked into rather than at. These eyes were blue blue as autumn distance – blue as the blue we see between the retreating mouldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny September morning. ![]()
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