Author: George EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Works of George Eliot
Author: George EliotWorks of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life
Author: George EliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Scenes of Clerical Life
Author: George EliotThe Works of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life. Silas Marner
Author: George EliotThe Complete Works of George Eliot...: Scenes of clerical life. Essays
Author: George EliotThe Works of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life
Author: George EliotPublisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Works of George Eliot
Author: The Writings of George Eliot: Scenes of clerical life
Author: George EliotScenes of Clerical Life
Author: George EliotPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504084470
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Three novellas that brilliantly portray English country and clergy life at the turn of the nineteenth century from the author of Middlemarch. Initially appearing in Blackwood’s Magazine, this trio of linked stories comprises George Eliot’s first published work. Together they form a portrait of small-town life in Midlands, England, where changes are affecting both society at large and religious beliefs and institutions. In “The Sad Fortunes of Reverend Amos Barton,” the clergyman struggles to raise funds for church repairs and perform his parochial duties, while a target of gossip—both good and bad. Meanwhile, few in Shepperton can find fault with his shy and hardworking wife, who cares for their six children, stretching Barton’s meager salary—and herself—to the limit. Set before the arrival of Amos Barton, “Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story” features well-liked parish priest Maynard Gifil, who is known for smoking long pipes and preaching short sermons. Shockingly tumultuous events lead up to his marriage—including a love triangle, deception, and a murder plot. An argument over religious doctrine splits the market town of Milby into two factions in “Janet’s Repentance.” With the arrival of Reverend Tryan, a rumor spreads that Evangelicalism has invaded the parish, angering local lawyer Robert Dempster. But his long-suffering wife finds in Tryan a kindred spirit, leading her to embark on a new life. “The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.” —Charles Dickens “A first-rate novel, and its author takes rank at once among the masters of the art.” —The Times
Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
Author: George EliotPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425008623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
But, my dear madam, it is so very large a majority of your fellow-countrymen that are of this insignificant stamp. At least eighty out of a hundred of your adult male fellow-Britons returned in the last census are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano.