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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... smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers; the mail still announced itself3 by the merry notes of the horn; the hedgecutter or the rick-thatcher might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet ...
... smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers; the mail still announced itself3 by the merry notes of the horn; the hedgecutter or the rick-thatcher might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet ...
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... smiling, 'You would not have known me, eh, mother?' It was perhaps the truth. If she had seen him in a crowd, she might have looked at him without recognition – not, however, without startled wonder; for though the likeness to herself ...
... smiling, 'You would not have known me, eh, mother?' It was perhaps the truth. If she had seen him in a crowd, she might have looked at him without recognition – not, however, without startled wonder; for though the likeness to herself ...
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