Scenes of Clerical Life
of George Eliot, Thomas A. Noble (Editor, Introduction, Notes)
Series: Scenes of Clerical Life #1-3
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My only merit must lie in the faithfulness with which I represent to you the humble experience of an ordinary fellow-mortal.When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words of Saturday Review, as âthe production of a peculiar and remarkable writer'. The first readers, including Dickens and Thackeray, were struck by its humorous irony, the truthfulness of its presentation of the lives of ordinary men and women, and its compassionate acceptance of human weakness.The three stories that make up the Scenes, âThe Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', âMr Gilfil's Love Story', and âJanet's Repentance', foreshadow George Eliot's major work, and their success gave her the confidence to become one of the greatest English novelists.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 310 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Publication Date January 24th 2002
- First Publication 10/30/57
- Language English
- ISBN 9780192837806
- Edition Oxford World's Classics
- Category Fiction
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