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George Eliot Selected Works (Leopard Classics) - Hardcover

(Eliot, George). Karl, Frederick R.

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Synopsis

Includes MIDDLEMARCH (1881) - the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the skepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and human relationships; SILAS MARNER (1861) - Eliot's own favourite novel centres on Silas Marner, the linen weaver of Raveloe, a village on the brink of industrialization. Once he was a respected member of a narrow congregation, but the events that took place during one of his cataleptic foots led to the loss of everything that he valued; her short story THE LIFTED VEIL (1859) - a dark fantasy drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revivification; and BROTHER JACOB (1859) - Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading.

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