Felix Holt: The RadicalWhen the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt. |
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... believe she would become ('Esther was too clever and tasteful a woman to make a ballad heroine of herself, by bestowing her beauty and her lands on this lowly lover'). Redolent of the popular and the people, the ballad provides an apt ...
... believe she would become ('Esther was too clever and tasteful a woman to make a ballad heroine of herself, by bestowing her beauty and her lands on this lowly lover'). Redolent of the popular and the people, the ballad provides an apt ...
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... believe in her 'littleness': 'No, you are not an insect. That is what exasperates me at your making a boast of littleness.' He urges her instead into a less egotistical relationship with the world: 'You are discontented with the world ...
... believe in her 'littleness': 'No, you are not an insect. That is what exasperates me at your making a boast of littleness.' He urges her instead into a less egotistical relationship with the world: 'You are discontented with the world ...
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... believe that I have underlined the brief bits of epistolary correspondence in the first and second volumes as if they were to be printed in italics after the fashion of the old novels. But this is undesirable now that people are ...
... believe that I have underlined the brief bits of epistolary correspondence in the first and second volumes as if they were to be printed in italics after the fashion of the old novels. But this is undesirable now that people are ...
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... believe he paid for it, they were welcome. However, Lawyer Jermyn had sat on that box-seat many and many a time. He had made the wills of most people thereabout. The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was not the man he would ...
... believe he paid for it, they were welcome. However, Lawyer Jermyn had sat on that box-seat many and many a time. He had made the wills of most people thereabout. The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was not the man he would ...
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... believe themselves unwatched. At last the sound of the church-bell reached Mrs Transome's ear, and she knew that before long the sound of wheels must be within hearing; but she did not at once start up and walk to the entrance-door. She ...
... believe themselves unwatched. At last the sound of the church-bell reached Mrs Transome's ear, and she knew that before long the sound of wheels must be within hearing; but she did not at once start up and walk to the entrance-door. She ...
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