George Eliot Scenes and People in Her Novels (Classic Reprint)
George Eliot Scenes and People in Her Novels (Classic Reprint)

Author: Charles S. Olcott

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-07

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780332529851

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Excerpt from George Eliot Scenes and People in Her Novels Each wrote of life as it is, and particularly of that with which he was the most familiar. Dickens's favorite theme low In the great city of London; Thackeray's, the higher social stratum. Sir Walter gave us a vivid picture of Scotland such as no one else ever attempted, while George Eliot pre ferred the rural life of the lviidlands of Eng land. Here she was thoroughly at home. The daughter of a prosperous land-agent, whose daily life was not above that of the plain country-folk who were his neighbors, she was, throughout her youth, in daily con tact with farmers and their wives, country parsons and dissenting preachers, village doctors and rural schoolmasters, while now and then her father's business connection with several of the wealthiest estates in Eng land gave her an opportunity to visit the most aristocratic homes of the vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

GEORGE ELIOT SCENES & PEOPLE I
GEORGE ELIOT SCENES & PEOPLE I

Author: Charles S. (Charles Sumner) 186 Olcott

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781362585947

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My Life in Middlemarch
My Life in Middlemarch

Author: Rebecca Mead

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2014-01-28

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0307984788

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A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that deftly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's masterpiece--the complexity of love, the meaning of marriage, the foundations of morality, and the drama of aspiration and failure--and brings them into our world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an exploration of the way aspects of Mead's life uncannily echo that of Eliot herself, My Life in Middlemarch is for every ardent lover of literature who cares about why we read books, and how they read us.

Janet's Repentance
Janet's Repentance

Author: George Eliot

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-06-24

Total Pages: 566

ISBN-13: 9781721659500

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Janet's Repentance George Eliot Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity. Her first major literary work was the translation of David Strauss' Life of Jesus (1846). In 1857 The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton, the first of the Scenes of Clerical Life, was published in Blackwood's Magazine and, along with the other Scenes, was well received. Her first complete novel, published in 1859, was Adam Bede and was an instant success. Eliot's most famous work, Middlemarch, was a turning point in the history of the novel. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

George Eliot in Context
George Eliot in Context

Author: Margaret Harris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-30

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0521764084

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George Eliot's literary achievement is explored through essays on its historical, intellectual, political and social contexts.

George Eliot's Life, Complete
George Eliot's Life, Complete

Author: George Eliot

Publisher: 谷月社

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 781

ISBN-13:

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Chapter I. In the foregoing introductory sketch I have endeavored to present the influences to which George Eliot was subjected in her youth, and the environment in which she grew up; I am now able to begin the fulfilment of the promise on the titlepage, that the life will be related in her own letters; or, rather, in extracts from her own letters, for no single letter is printed entire from the beginning to the end. I have not succeeded in obtaining any between 6th January, 1836, and 18th August, 1838; but from the latter date the correspondence becomes regular, and I have arranged it as a continuous narrative, with the names of the persons to whom the letters are addressed in the margin. The slight thread of narrative or explanation which I have written to elucidate the letters, where necessary, will hereafter occupy an inside margin, so that the reader will see at a glance what is narrative and what is correspondence, and will be troubled as little as possible with marks of quotation or changes of type. The following opening letter of the series to Miss Lewis describes a first visit to London with her brother: [Sidenote: Letter to Miss Lewis, 18th Aug. 1838.] Let me tell you, though, that I was not at all delighted with the stir of the great Babel, and the less so, probably, owing to the circumstances attending my visit thither.