Scenes Of Clerical Life

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425008628

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Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton by George Eliot Pdf

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.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721659501

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Janet's Repentance by George Eliot Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Anne Evans
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547111818

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Scenes of Clerical Life, Vol. I by Mary Anne Evans Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Scenes of Clerical Life, Vol. I" by Mary Anne Evans. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Rebecca Mead
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385676878

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My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Pdf

Rebecca Mead was a young woman in a coastal town of England when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs and then marriage and family, Rebecca Mead 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 the reader into the life that her favorite book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that perfectly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's novel and brings them into the world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an uncanny portrait of the ways in which Mead's life echoes that of the author herself, My Life in Middlemarch is a book for who wonders about the power of literature to shape our lives.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724212788

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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story by George Eliot Pdf

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story By George Eliot Mr. Gilfil's love story by George Eliot This narrative by George Eliot clearly depicts her feelings about the aristocracy. It reveals how honour and grace are the only qualities to be upheld. To endure hardships with poise and to bravely face the calamities that befall one with is the essence of life. 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.

Author : Hao Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230598607

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Memory and History in George Eliot by Hao Li Pdf

This book explores the interrelations between communal memory and the sense of history in George Eliot's novels by focusing on issues such as memory and narrative, memory and oblivion, memory and time, and the interactions between personal, communal and national memories. Hao Li offers a fresh critical reading informed by major nineteenth-century theories and argues for a reappraisal of George Eliot's complex understanding of the dialects of memory and history, an understanding that both integrates and transcends the positivist and the romantic-historical approaches of her time.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005462127

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Adam Bede by George Eliot Pdf

Author : Sally Shuttleworth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521335841

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George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science by Sally Shuttleworth Pdf

This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.

Author : A. S. Byatt,George Eliot
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141958729

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Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by A. S. Byatt,George Eliot Pdf

The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433070268192

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The Complete Works of George Eliot by George Eliot Pdf

Author : David Carroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521403665

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George Eliot and the Conflict of Interpretations by David Carroll Pdf

Two versions of George Eliot, radical thinker and reclusive novelist, are brought together in this chronological study of her work. As a result, she is placed within the crisis of belief acted out in the mid-nineteenth century.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849650513

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Romola by George Eliot Pdf

Romola, one of the best-known novels by George Eliot (C. P. P.), was originally published in 1863. The scene is in Florence, Italy, at the end of the fifteenth century. Roinola, the heroine, a daughter of the Italian family of Bardi, marries Tito Melema, a Greek, but the marriage proves a failure, and she sacrifices herself in devotion to the people during the plague. A marvellously able story of the revival of the taste and beauty and freedom of Hellenic manners and letters, under Lorenzo di Medici and the scholars of his Court, side by side with the revival of Roman virtue, and more than the ancient austerity and piety, under the great Dominican, Savonarola. The period of history is one which of all others may well have engrossing interest for George Eliot. Treasures of learning and discipline, amassed for mankind ages before, for ages stored and hidden away, see again the sun, are recognized and put to use. What use they will be put to, with what new and fruitful effects on the State and the citizen, with what momentary and with what lasting consequences, this she strives to discover ; this she follows through the public history of Italy during the modern invasion of Charles VIII., and the events which succeed his invasion, and through the private fortunes of her admirably chosen group of characters, some of them drawn from life, all of them true to nature.

Author : Philip Maurice Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199577378

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The Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Maurice Davis Pdf

Biography of George Eliot (1819-1880, born as Mary Anne Evans), British writer and poet. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like a novelist: in particular a realist novelist for whom art exists not for art's sake but in the exploration and service of human life.

Author : U. C. Knoepflmacher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520311282

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George Eliot's Early Novels by U. C. Knoepflmacher Pdf

This study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal world she lived in, George Eliot also tried to reassure herself and her readers that their godless modern world still operated according to higher moral laws of justice and perfectibility. U. C. Knoepflmacher examines here for the first time in sequence George Eliot's development of increasingly sophisticated forms of fiction in her efforts to reconcile the two conflicting orientations in her thought. We see this popular novelist as she progressed artistically from the flawed "Amos Barton" in 1857 up to the balance she achieved in Silas Marner in 1861. And we discover her in the context of her literary antecedents and surrounding in a way that brings many new affiliations to light, particularly the connection of her novels to the writings of Milton, the Romantic poets, and her contemporaries Arnold and Carlyle. Professor Knoepflmacher thoroughly discusses each work in George Eliot's first stage, brining new attention to minor works like "The Lifted Veil" and Scenes of Clerical Life and fresh insights to such well known works as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Author : George Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Clergy
ISBN : OXFORD:400269030

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Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot Pdf

George Eliot's fiction debut work contains three stories of the lives of clergymen, with the aim of disclosing the value hidden in the commonplace. "The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton" portrays a character who is hard to like and easy to ridicule. "Mr. Gilfil's Love-Story," brings forth conflicting value systems revolving around a young woman, Caterina, and two men. "Janet's Repentance" is an account of conversion from sinfulness to righteousness achieved through the selfless endeavors of a clergyman.