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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... perhaps most marked in her correspondence with the barrister Frederick Harrison, whom she contacted for advice on the mass of legal details involved in Felix Holt.1 First consulted in January 1866, he was to prove an enthusiastic and ...
... perhaps most marked in her correspondence with the barrister Frederick Harrison, whom she contacted for advice on the mass of legal details involved in Felix Holt.1 First consulted in January 1866, he was to prove an enthusiastic and ...
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... perhaps still more worryingly, with the person of the hero, Felix Holt himself. Like modern critics of Felix Holt, these nineteenth-century reviewers often seem to have felt some unease at the complex legalities of inheritance and ...
... perhaps still more worryingly, with the person of the hero, Felix Holt himself. Like modern critics of Felix Holt, these nineteenth-century reviewers often seem to have felt some unease at the complex legalities of inheritance and ...
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... perhaps rather too close to idealization, jarring at times with Eliot's statements of her artistic beliefs. 'My artistic bent is directed not at all to the presentation of eminently irreproachable characters, but to the presentation of ...
... perhaps rather too close to idealization, jarring at times with Eliot's statements of her artistic beliefs. 'My artistic bent is directed not at all to the presentation of eminently irreproachable characters, but to the presentation of ...
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... perhaps. But I say, I want you to change.' If Harold willingly adopts the discourse of romance with Esther, praising her appearance even if neglecting her mind, then Felix does the converse, refusing to resort to the conventional ...
... perhaps. But I say, I want you to change.' If Harold willingly adopts the discourse of romance with Esther, praising her appearance even if neglecting her mind, then Felix does the converse, refusing to resort to the conventional ...
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... Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless ... Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale pink dogroses; perhaps the urchins were already nutting amongst ...
... Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless ... Perhaps they were white with May, or starred with pale pink dogroses; perhaps the urchins were already nutting amongst ...
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