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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... feeling when experience had mellowed them, and they had themselves become fathers? Still, if Mrs Transome had expected only her son, she would have trembled less; she expected a little grandson also: and there were reasons why she had ...
... feeling when experience had mellowed them, and they had themselves become fathers? Still, if Mrs Transome had expected only her son, she would have trembled less; she expected a little grandson also: and there were reasons why she had ...
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... feeling that age had made his mother's face very anxious and eager. 'The old women at Smyrna are like sacks. You've not got clumsy and shapeless. How is it I have the trick of getting fat?' (Here Harold lifted his arm and spread out his ...
... feeling that age had made his mother's face very anxious and eager. 'The old women at Smyrna are like sacks. You've not got clumsy and shapeless. How is it I have the trick of getting fat?' (Here Harold lifted his arm and spread out his ...
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... with the determination not to show any unasked-for feeling. Her son did not notice her. All the time he had been speaking his eyes had been running down the columns of the newspaper. 'But your little boy, Harold – where is he? How.
... with the determination not to show any unasked-for feeling. Her son did not notice her. All the time he had been speaking his eyes had been running down the columns of the newspaper. 'But your little boy, Harold – where is he? How.
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... feeling that her son was a stranger to her. Here was a revelation to which it seemed almost as impossible to adjust her hopes and notions of a dignified life as if her son had said that he had been converted to Mahometanism at Smyrna ...
... feeling that her son was a stranger to her. Here was a revelation to which it seemed almost as impossible to adjust her hopes and notions of a dignified life as if her son had said that he had been converted to Mahometanism at Smyrna ...
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... feeling; and even if he could have conceived what his mother's feeling was, his mind, after that momentary arrest, would have darted forward on its usual course. 'I have given you the south rooms, Harold,' said Mrs Transome, as they ...
... feeling; and even if he could have conceived what his mother's feeling was, his mind, after that momentary arrest, would have darted forward on its usual course. 'I have given you the south rooms, Harold,' said Mrs Transome, as they ...
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