Scenes of Clerical Life

Name: Scenes of Clerical Life
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Varios Autores
ISBN: 9780192837806

Varios Autores

01/01/2002
Oxford University Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Scenes of Clerical Life par Varios Autores

Résumé

When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words of Saturday Review, as 'the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer'. The three stories that make up the Scenes, 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and 'Janet's Repentance', intriguingly foreshadow George Eliot's later work. The first readers, including Dickens and Thackeray, were struck by the humorous irony, the truthfulness of the presentation of the lives of ordinary people, and the compassionate acceptance of human weakness which characterize Eliot's writing.