How long does it take to read A Pair of Blue Eyes?
A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy takes about 7 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1800. 434 pages, about 119,350 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 91 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice.
Subjects: Elopement, Elopement in fiction, Fiction, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Separation (Psychology), VFiction
