Screen LibraryThe lifted veil
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| Published: |
Melville House Pub.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | [2007] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The art of the novella series |
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| Carrier Form: | 75 p.: ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0976658305 9780976658306 |
| Index Number: | I561 |
| CLC: | I561.44 |
| Call Number: | I561.44/E428-12 |
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"First published in the July 1859 issue of Blackwood's magazine"--T.p. verso. Horror was my familiar. Published the same year as her first novel. Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous--gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural. The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny ... |