The Lifted Veil - Couverture souple

Eliot, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0146001699 ISBN 13 : 9780146001697

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

56 pages. Annotations en page de titre (ex-dono). Etat d'usage Couv. légèrement passée Intérieur acceptable In-18 Carré Broché Penguin 60s Classics.

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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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0146001699
• ISBN 13: 9780146001697
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64