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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... live together, and did so until Lewes's death in 1878. It was he who encouraged her to turn from philosophy and journalism to fiction, and she subsequently wrote, under the name of George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The ...
... live together, and did so until Lewes's death in 1878. It was he who encouraged her to turn from philosophy and journalism to fiction, and she subsequently wrote, under the name of George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The ...
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... lives should be made delightful in spite of unalterable external conditions'. 'We are saved by making the future ... live on in her dread, Esther's own perceptions are sharpened on this score. As she gradually realizes, 'in accepting ...
... lives should be made delightful in spite of unalterable external conditions'. 'We are saved by making the future ... live on in her dread, Esther's own perceptions are sharpened on this score. As she gradually realizes, 'in accepting ...
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... lives, similar reservations attend the 'woman question' of the nineteenth century. ' “Enfranchisement of women” only makes creeping progress; and that is best, for woman does not yet deserve a much better lot than man gives her,' Eliot ...
... lives, similar reservations attend the 'woman question' of the nineteenth century. ' “Enfranchisement of women” only makes creeping progress; and that is best, for woman does not yet deserve a much better lot than man gives her,' Eliot ...
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