Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings
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- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
27 September 1990
Summary
An illuminating collection of George Eliot’s varied work
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot’s incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as ‘Evangelical Teaching’ show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while ‘Woman in France’ questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and ‘Notes on Form in Art’ sets out theories of idealism and realism that she deve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140431483 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140431489 |
| Author: | George Eliot, A.S. Byatt |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 27 September 1990 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 139mm x 199mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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George Eliot
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt was born in 1936 and educated in York and at Newnham College, Cambridge, of which she is now an Honorary Fellow. She taught English at University College, London, from 1972 to 1983. She appears regularly on radio and television, and writes academic articles and literary journalism both in England and abroad.
Her fiction includes:
- The Shadow of the Sun
- The Game
- The Virgin in the Garden
- Still Life
- Sugar and Other Stories
- Possession (winner of the 1990 Booker Prize and the 1990 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction prize)
- Angels and Insects (novella)
- The Matisse Stories
- The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye (a collection of fairy stories)
- Babel Tower
- Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice
- The Biographers Tale
- A Whistling Woman
- The Little Black Book of Stories
Her work has been translated into 28 languages.
Her critical work includes:
- Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch
- Unruly Times (on Wordsworth and Coleridge)
- Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers (with the psychoanalyst Ignas Sodre)
- Passions of the Mind (a collection of critical essays, 1991)
- On Histories and Stories (a new collection, 2000)
- Portraits in Fiction (a study of the relationship between painting and the novel, 2001)
- Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings by George Eliot (editor, 2001)
She was appointed DBE in 1999.
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-1880) 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.
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