ELIOT GEORGE

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MILL ON THE FLOSS (SUMMER CLASSICS)

(P/B) SELECTED ESSAYS, POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS
The works assembled here introduce George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art, and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, questioning conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and setting out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in her famous novels. Also included are selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach, excerpts from her poems, and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe, and Browning. Wonde...
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(P/B) FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL
When William Blackwood, George Eliot's publisher, first saw the manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend he described the novel as "a perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a distinct figure." A political radical and a child of the working class, Felix has lost faith in a politic...
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LIFTED VEIL & BROTHER JACOB

(P/B) AMOS BARTON
Newly installed as vicar of Shepperton Church, the Revd Amos Barton is quick to learn that change is not on his parishioners' agenda - and being a rather middling man, his powers of persuasion are somewhat lacking; the parish is in danger of becoming a hothouse of gossip and prejudice. There is, however, one subject on which everyone is in agreement: that his wife, the angelic Milly, is a pure delight, an entirely virtuous woman who would never turn a soul away. But this, too, soon becomes fuel for the parson's critics as Milly opens their...
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