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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... holds back Eliot's desired progress in March. As she wrote to Mme Eugène Bodichon on 10 April, 'I am finishing a book, which has been growing slowly like a sickly child, because of my own ailments; but now I am in the later acts of it ...
... holds back Eliot's desired progress in March. As she wrote to Mme Eugène Bodichon on 10 April, 'I am finishing a book, which has been growing slowly like a sickly child, because of my own ailments; but now I am in the later acts of it ...
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... hold between private and public morality. Harold Transome, presented in the propaganda of his electioneering agent as 'the working man's friend, the collier's friend, the friend of the honest navvy', manifests in reality somewhat ...
... hold between private and public morality. Harold Transome, presented in the propaganda of his electioneering agent as 'the working man's friend, the collier's friend, the friend of the honest navvy', manifests in reality somewhat ...
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... holds true for Felix Holt whose 'large-eyed, strong-limbed person' and 'energetically sympathetic' nature are regularly held up for our commendation. Resolute in his rejection of self-advancement and the superficial trappings of the ...
... holds true for Felix Holt whose 'large-eyed, strong-limbed person' and 'energetically sympathetic' nature are regularly held up for our commendation. Resolute in his rejection of self-advancement and the superficial trappings of the ...
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... hold whereas Harold is content to endorse them. 'You've had to worry yourself about things that don't properly belong to a woman,' Harold tells his mother. 'Women, very properly, don't change their views, but keep to the notions in ...
... hold whereas Harold is content to endorse them. 'You've had to worry yourself about things that don't properly belong to a woman,' Harold tells his mother. 'Women, very properly, don't change their views, but keep to the notions in ...
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... holds greater sway than niceties of manner and dress. His teaching, as in his political philosophy, is directed towards the eradication of superficial and selfish desires, and the ecacy of his lessons is readily perceptible in the ...
... holds greater sway than niceties of manner and dress. His teaching, as in his political philosophy, is directed towards the eradication of superficial and selfish desires, and the ecacy of his lessons is readily perceptible in the ...
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