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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... head the mob, and save a few homes and hearths, and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can,' says Jack Lingon, summing up Harold's adoption of radical principles early in the novel. But it is of course through Harold's ...
... head the mob, and save a few homes and hearths, and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can,' says Jack Lingon, summing up Harold's adoption of radical principles early in the novel. But it is of course through Harold's ...
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... head 'in the deafening down of the cushions'. 'I never went in for fine company and cushions,' says Felix in contrast, and this is of course to be Esther's choice too, in her realization of a different type of 'goodness' from that ...
... head 'in the deafening down of the cushions'. 'I never went in for fine company and cushions,' says Felix in contrast, and this is of course to be Esther's choice too, in her realization of a different type of 'goodness' from that ...
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... head of each chapter, were (especially in Volume II) often added at this stage. 'By the way, how admirable your mottoes are. Many of them I imagine to be your own. I see you have left blanks in many cases. Do you mean to fill them in ...
... head of each chapter, were (especially in Volume II) often added at this stage. 'By the way, how admirable your mottoes are. Many of them I imagine to be your own. I see you have left blanks in many cases. Do you mean to fill them in ...
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... head had recently required head like a resuscitated surgery 2 3 4 Lazarus MS 1 271 a old MS an old 1 2 3 4 272 had MS 2 3 4 heard 1 275 a understrapper MS 275 a-turning 2 3 4 an understrapper 1 2 3 4 a turning MS 1 312 Crow 2 3 4 Crowe ...
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... head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless unocial air as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd with a slow and slouching walk, timed by the walk of grazing beasts, moved aside, as if unwillingly ...
... head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless unocial air as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd with a slow and slouching walk, timed by the walk of grazing beasts, moved aside, as if unwillingly ...
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