Description
| Product ID: | 9780140436389 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Scenes of Clerical Life |
| Authors: | Author: George Eliot, Jennifer Gribble |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Features stories that contain the author's earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) made her fictional debut when SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE appeared in ''Blackwood''s Magazine'' in 1857. These stories contain Eliot''s earliest studies of what became enduring themes in her great novels: the impact of religious controversy and social change in provincial life, and the power of love to transform the lives of individual men and women. ''Adam Bede'' was soon to appear and bring George Eliot fame and fortune. In the meantime the SCENES won acclaim from a discerning readership including Charles Dickens: '' I hope you will excuse my writing to you to express my admiration...The exquisite truth and delicacy, both of the humour and the pathos of those stories, I have never seen the like of.'' |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1999-01-28 |