Felix Holt: The Radical

ISBN-13: 9780140434354 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 592 str.

George Eliot

Opis

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a radical. But after Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holts beliefs becomes apparent.

O autorze

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