George Eliot: Voice of a Century; A Biography - Softcover

Karl, Frederick Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393315215 ISBN 13: 9780393315219

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

Synopsis

Karl shows how Eliot's break from respectable womanhood by running off with the married George Henry Lewes allowed her to begin her career as the major British novelist of the nineteenth century. Often, she drew upon her own life to create her plots and characters. She set several of her masterworks - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, and Middlemarch - in the England of the past and her youth to show a complex portrait of society and character - one that captures us today with its moral dilemmas and psychological shrewdness.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'This is a weighty and authoritative biography which takes account of the latest available scholarship...It gives more than adequate representation of the moral and intellectual distinction which George Eliot carried with her everywhere--the distinction of her work, of course, but also the distinctiveness of her thwarted, striated, and passionate nature.' --Peter Ackroyd, 'London Times'

About the Author:

Frederick R. Karl is the author of William Faulkner: American Writer. He is a professor at New York University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0393315215
• ISBN 13: 9780393315219
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 750