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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... leaves in her corridors, had felt the soft carpets under her pretty feet ... and she had had several accomplished cavaliers all at once suing for her hand – one of whom, uniting very high birth with long dark eyelashes and the most ...
... leaves in her corridors, had felt the soft carpets under her pretty feet ... and she had had several accomplished cavaliers all at once suing for her hand – one of whom, uniting very high birth with long dark eyelashes and the most ...
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... leaving her the power of choosing in restricted (and stereotypically female) spheres: '[he] let her choose what she liked for the house and garden, asked her whether she would have bays or greys for her new carriage, and was bent on ...
... leaving her the power of choosing in restricted (and stereotypically female) spheres: '[he] let her choose what she liked for the house and garden, asked her whether she would have bays or greys for her new carriage, and was bent on ...
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... leave. I made a deliberate choice.' In this important sense Esther fulfils the terms of Felix's original demand, showing (and deploying) the 'power of choosing something better'. Mrs Transome's own choices in the past bring instead a ...
... leave. I made a deliberate choice.' In this important sense Esther fulfils the terms of Felix's original demand, showing (and deploying) the 'power of choosing something better'. Mrs Transome's own choices in the past bring instead a ...
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... leave Transome Court she also escapes the constraints of 'fine-ladyism' and feminine ideology which had so curtailed her vision at the beginning of the tale. The cushions and candles of her early dreams of luxury are dispelled and the ...
... leave Transome Court she also escapes the constraints of 'fine-ladyism' and feminine ideology which had so curtailed her vision at the beginning of the tale. The cushions and candles of her early dreams of luxury are dispelled and the ...
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... leaves to make a resting-place for the jewels of the hoar-frost. Such hedgerows were often as tall as the labourers' cottages dotted along the lanes, or clustered into a small hamlet, their little dingy windows telling, like thick ...
... leaves to make a resting-place for the jewels of the hoar-frost. Such hedgerows were often as tall as the labourers' cottages dotted along the lanes, or clustered into a small hamlet, their little dingy windows telling, like thick ...
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