The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob - Brossura

Eliot, George

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140435174 ISBN 13: 9780140435177

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2001

Riassunto

Latimer, the narrator of 'The Lifted Veil', possesses an uncanny ability to see into the minds of others and to divine the future, including the moment of his own death. The gift of being able to read the private thoughts and emotions of his fellow men soon becomes a curse to Latimer, for he is horrified by what he discovers. Afflicted by his burden of knowledge, he is driven to marry the cold-hearted coquette Bertha - the only person whose mind seems closed to him, until it is too late. This volume also includes George Eliot's only other short fictional work; the satirical fable 'Brother Jacob', in which the mercenary schemes of a devious confectioner are unconsciously thwarted by the childlike innocence of his 'idiot' brother.

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L'autore:

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century

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Book by Eliot George

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0140435174
• ISBN 13: 9780140435177
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160
• Redattore: Shuttleworth Sally