ISBN: 9780140435177

First published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, "The Lifted Veil" is now one of George Eliot's most widely read and critically discussed short stories. A dark fantasy drawing on contempo… mais…

First published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, "The Lifted Veil" is now one of George Eliot's most widely read and critically discussed short stories. A dark fantasy drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revification, it is Eliot's anatomy of her own moral philosophy. Narrated by an egocentric, morbid young clairvoyant man, the story also explores fiction's ability to offer insight into the self, as well as being a remarkable portrait of an artist whose visionary powers merely blight his life.Published as a companion piece to "The Lifted Veil," "Brother Jacob" is by contrast Eliot's literary homage to Thackeray, a satirical modern fable that draws telling parallels between eating and reading. With an illuminating introduction by Helen Small, this Oxford World's Classics edition makes newly available two fascinating short stories which fully deserve to be read alongside Eliot's novels. Media > Book, [PU: Penguin Books]<

2001, ISBN: 9780140435177

Penguin Classics, 01.10, 160 Seiten 13,3 x 1,3 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tra… mais…

Penguin Classics, 01.10, 160 Seiten 13,3 x 1,3 x 20,3 cm, Taschenbuch From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - slightly browned, overall very good and clean. ISBN 9780140435177Varia 2001, [PU: Penguin Books]<