Scenes of Clerical Life - Couverture souple

Eliot, George

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140430873 ISBN 13 : 9780140430875

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1973

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Book by Eliot George

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From Blackwood s Magazine. THE SAD FORTUNES OF THE REVEREND AMOS BARTON. PART I. -CHAPTER I. Sheppkrton Church was a very differentlooking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in every thing else what changes !N ow, there is a wide span of slated roof flanking the old steeple ;the windows are tall and symmetrical; the outer doors are resplendent with oak-graining, the inner doors reverentially noiseless with a garment of red baize ;and the walls, you are convinced, no lichen will ever again effect a settlement on they are smooth and innutrient as the summit of the Rev. A mos Barton shead, after ten years of baldness and supererogatory soap. Pass through the baize doors and you will see the nave filled with well-shaped benches, understood to be free seats ;while in certain eligible corners, less directly under the fire of the clergeman seye, there are pews reserved for the Shepperton gentility. Ample galleries are supported on iron pillars, and in one of them stands the crowning glory, the very clasp or aigrette of Shepperton church-adornment namely, an organ, not very much out of repsur, on which a collector of small rents, difierentiated by the force of circumstanced into an organbt, will accompany the alacrity of your departure after the blessings by a sacred minuet or an easy Gloria. Immense improvement! says the wellregulated mind, which unintermittingly rejoices in the New Police, the Tithe Commutation A ct, the penny-post, and all guarantees of human advancement, and has no moments when conservative-reforming intellect takes a nap, while imagination does a little Toryism by the sly, revelling in regret that dear, old, brown, crumbling, picturesque inefficiency is everywhere giving place to spick-and-span, new-pain
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Biographie de l'auteur :

Mary Anne Evans (22 November, 1819 – 22 December, 1880), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure her works would be taken seriously. Female authors were published under their own names during Eliot's life, but she wanted to escape the stereotype of women only writing lighthearted romances. She also wished to have her fiction judged separately from her already extensive and widely known work as an editor and critic. An additional factor in her use of a pen name may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes, with whom she lived for over 20 years.

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