Contents "George Eliot's" Analysis of Motives / N. Sheppard -- Carlyle's life of Sterling -- Woman in France: Madame de Sable -- Evangelical teaching: Dr. Cumming -- German wit: Henry Heine -- Natural history of German life -- Silly novels by lady novelists -- Worldliness & other-worldliness -- The influence of rationalism -- The grammar of ornament -- Felix Holt's address to workingmen.
The Essays of "George Eliot" is a classic collection of literary criticism essays by the great English writer and author, George Eliot.
George Eliot is the greatest of the novelists in the delineation of feeling and the analysis of motives.
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.
This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot’s essays written between 1846 and 1868. Through these essays, Pinney has managed to convey her range of subject-matters and variety of style.
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They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
This collection, first published in 1963, includes 29 of George Eliot's essays written between 1846 and 1868. Through these essays, Pinney has managed to convey her range of subject-matters and variety of style.
Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation—penned by none other than Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today.
This collection brings together new articles by leading scholars who reappraise George Eliot in her bicentenary year as an interdisciplinary thinker and writer for our times.
Silas Marner is the third novel by George Eliot, published in 1861.