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A Pair of Blue Eyes

By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
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Summary

Hardy's third novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes, follows the story of Elfride Swancourt. The daughter of the rector of Endelstow, a sparse, sea-swept parish in Cornwall, Elfride is caught between two suitors of very different backgrounds: Stephen Smith, a young architect restoring the old parish church; and the respectable, older man of London society, Henry Knight. The blue-eyed and high-spirited protagonist must untangle the conflicting messages of her heart and her mind.

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rather date by victorian valles. the reading accents are a bit force. any things by Thomas Hardy most be worth listening to

Interesting Listern

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I love this story probably even more than his more well known ones. He does disastrously doomed love affairs fabulously. I want more!

Again Wonderfully Tragic

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The voice of Stephen Smith, Hardy’s hero, is completely off-putting in this reading. So much so that we stopped a quarter of the way in to download another version instead as the love scenes were unbearable! The reader makes him sound like a charmless dunce—unlike the Hardy text—and can’t even pronounce Elfride correctly. Avoid!

Brilliant novel but awful reading put me off.

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Hated the reading to the point that I had to stop several chapters in and switch to another version. Avoid!!

Good novel, shocking reading - avoid

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