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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... side by side in the trial scene but, contrary to her earlier assumptions, it is the 'finished gentleman' who comes off the worse in her newer, and truer, vision. 'Gentlemen' to be truly such must be constructed of more than 'finish ...
... side by side in the trial scene but, contrary to her earlier assumptions, it is the 'finished gentleman' who comes off the worse in her newer, and truer, vision. 'Gentlemen' to be truly such must be constructed of more than 'finish ...
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... side to her position: 'We want freedom and culture for woman, because subjection and ignorance have debased her, and with her, Man.'26 Eliot's irony on the score of 'female ignorance' is certainly marked in Felix Holt, whether relating ...
... side to her position: 'We want freedom and culture for woman, because subjection and ignorance have debased her, and with her, Man.'26 Eliot's irony on the score of 'female ignorance' is certainly marked in Felix Holt, whether relating ...
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... side there is renunciation' – as she tells Felix, 'Since I have been at Transome Court I have seen many things very seriously. If I had not, I should not have left what I did leave. I made a deliberate choice.' In this important sense ...
... side there is renunciation' – as she tells Felix, 'Since I have been at Transome Court I have seen many things very seriously. If I had not, I should not have left what I did leave. I made a deliberate choice.' In this important sense ...
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... side of the page only on blue lined paper (and with a margin of just over an inch from Chapter XVIII onwards), the manuscript is striking in its relatively low level of deletions and corrections, especially given the complexity of the ...
... side of the page only on blue lined paper (and with a margin of just over an inch from Chapter XVIII onwards), the manuscript is striking in its relatively low level of deletions and corrections, especially given the complexity of the ...
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... side of an olive-green gig. They probably thought of the coach with some contempt, as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs, or who, wanting to travel to London and such distant places, belonged to the trading and less ...
... side of an olive-green gig. They probably thought of the coach with some contempt, as an accommodation for people who had not their own gigs, or who, wanting to travel to London and such distant places, belonged to the trading and less ...
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