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The Lifted Veil

The Lifted Veil

Eliot, George

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Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1727454847
ISBN13: 9781727454840
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Sep 27 2018
Pages: 42
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The tale of a man who is incapacitated by visions of the future and the cacophony of overheard thoughts, and yet who can't help trying to subvert his vividly glimpsed destiny, it is easy to read The Lifted Veil as being autobiographically revealing-of Eliot's sensitivity to public opinion and her awareness that her days concealed behind a pseudonym were doomed to a tragic unveiling (as indeed came to pass soon after this novella's publication). But it is easier still to read the story as the exciting and genuine precursor of a moody new form, as well as an absorbing early masterpiece of suspense. Published the same year as her first novel, Adam Bede, this overlooked work displays the gifts for which George Eliot would become famous-gritty realism, psychological insight, and idealistic moralizing. It is unique from all her other writing, however, in that it represents the only time she ever used a first-person narrator, and it is the only time she wrote about the supernatural.

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