Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Eliot, George

9780140439809: Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)

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This is a general introduction to George Eliot's work as an essayist, translator and poet and should be useful as further reading for anyone studying her novels. The essays show a wit and energy of a kind quite different from that of the novels, which they nevertheless illuminate. They are divided into four sections: book reviews, mostly from the "Belles Lettres" section of the "Westminster Review"; the major long essays she wrote for the magazine immediately before she started writing fiction; shorter pieces, where many of her ideas can be found; and some later essays from her last published book "Impressions of Theophrastus Such".

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About the Author

A. S. Byatt was born in 1936 and educated in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow. She taught English at University College, London, from 1972 to 183. She appears regularly on radio and television, and writes academic articles and literary journalism both in England and abroad. Her fiction includes The Shadow of the Sun; The Game; The Virgin in the Garden; Still Life; Sugar and Other Stories; Possession, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize and the 1990 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction prize; the novella Angels and Insects; The Matisse Stories; The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, a collection of fairy stories; Babel Tower; Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice; The Biographers Tale; A Whistling Woman and The Little Black Book of Stories. Her work has been translated into 28 languages. Her critical work includes Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch, Unruly Times (on Wordsworth and Coleridge) and, with the psychoanalyst Ign�s Sodr�, Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers. Passions of the Mind, a collection of critical essays, appeared in 1991; a new collection, On Histories and Stories, appeared in 2000; Portraits in Fiction, a study of the relationship between painting and the novel, and (ed.) Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings, by George Eliot, in 2001. She was appointed DBE in 1999.

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century