Scenes of Clerical Life Format: Paperback

Eliot, George (Author); Gribble, Jennifer (Editor/introduction); Gribble, Jennifer (Notes by)

ISBN 10: 0140436383 / ISBN 13: 9780140436389

Published by Penguin Random House, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Scenes of Clerical Life Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: As New

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Synopsis:

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.'

About the Author:

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