Eyes Like the Sea

Mór Jókai (1825 - 1904)

He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an excellent lady might have been made out of this woman, if she had only met with a husband who, in the most ordinary acceptance of the word, had been a good fellow, as is really the case with about nine men out of every ten. But she always managed to draw the unlucky tenth out of the urn of destiny. And so she spurned his true love in favor of a high-flying dandy. He went on to pursue a life of politics and she to follow her capricious heart. But yet, throughout her life, she kept returning to him and to the end, of all men, she loved him perhaps best of all. (Eyes Like the Sea won the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prize for literature in 1890.) (Summary by MaryAnn)

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Romance

Language: English

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Play 01 01 - Chapter 1 MaryAnn
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Play 02 02 - Chapter 2 MaryAnn
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Play 03 03 - Chapter 3 MaryAnn
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Play 04 04 - Chapter 4 MaryAnn
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Play 05 05 - Chapter 5 MaryAnn
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Play 06 06 - Chapter 6 MaryAnn
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Play 07 07 - Chapter 7 MaryAnn
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Play 08 08 - Chapter 8, part 1 MaryAnn
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Play 09 09 - Chapter 8, part 2 MaryAnn
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Play 10 10 - Chapter 9 MaryAnn
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Play 11 11 - Chapter 10 MaryAnn
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Play 12 12 - Chapter 11 MaryAnn
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Play 13 13 - Chapter 12, part 1 MaryAnn
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Play 14 14 - Chapter 12, part 2 MaryAnn
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Play 15 15 - Chapter 13, part 1 MaryAnn
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Play 16 16 - Chapter 13, part 2 MaryAnn
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Play 17 17 - Chapter 13, part 3 MaryAnn
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Play 18 18 - Chapter 14 MaryAnn
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Play 19 19 - Chapter 15, part 1 MaryAnn
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Play 20 20 - Chapter 15, part 2 MaryAnn
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Play 21 21 - Chapter 16 MaryAnn
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Play 22 22 - Chapter 17 MaryAnn
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Play 23 23 - Chapter 18, part 1 MaryAnn
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Play 24 24 - Chapter 18, part 2 MaryAnn
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Play 25 25 - Chapter 19 MaryAnn
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Play 26 26 - Chapter 20 MaryAnn
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Play 27 27 - Chapter 21 MaryAnn
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