Scenes of Clerical Life (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot) - Hardcover

Eliot, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198125593 ISBN 13: 9780198125594

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1985

Synopsis

George Eliot's first work of fiction, Scenes of Clerical Life, appeared serially in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857. It was immediately recognized as, in the words of the Saturday Review, "the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer whose style showed little or no family resemblances with that of any living author." Using the first edition of 1858 as copy text, this edition records all substantive variants in the manuscript and subsequent editions of the book over which the author had control. The editor's introduction gives a detailed history of the writing and publication of the work, as well as a description of the manuscript and lists of emandations and variant spellings.

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English Victorian novelist known for her sensitive and honest depiction of life and people. Initially Eliot translated writings of other authors. She is famous for the psychological analysis of her characters in works which are acclaimed as classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0198125593
• ISBN 13: 9780198125594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 374
• Editor: Noble Thomas A.