Scenes of Clerical Life (World's Classics)

by George Eliot (Author), ThomasA.Noble (Editor)

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  1988

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  The sad fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton , Mr Gilfil's love-story and Janet's repentance , are the three stories which make up this, George Eliot's first work of fiction, published anonymously in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1857. In these stories George Eliot aimed to present, as truthfully as possible, the lives of ordinary men and women, their joys and suffering, their emotions, their conceptions of life and their human weaknesses, in such a way that they might capture the reader's sympathy and compassion. This edition reproduces the text of the same editor's Clarendon edition, based on the first volume printing collated with later editions and with the manuscript. Thomas Noble is author of George Eliot's scenes of clerical life and the chronology is by Gordon S. Haight.

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  2000

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  When Scenes of Clerical Life, George Eliot's first novel, was published anonymously in 1857, it was immediately recognized, in the words of Saturday Review, as 'the production of a peculiar and remarkable writer'. The three stories that make up the Scenes, 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and 'Janet's Repentance', intriguingly foreshadow George Eliot's later work. The first readers, including Dickens and Thackeray, were struck by the humorous irony, the truthfulness of the presentation of the lives of ordinary people, and the compassionate acceptance of human weakness which characterize Eliot's writing.