Scenes of clerical life
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Bibliographic Information
Scenes of clerical life
（The world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 1988
- : pbk
Available at 18 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [xxi]
Contents of Works
- The sad fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton
- Mr. Gilfil's love-story
- Janet's repentance
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Note on the text. Select bibliography. A chronology of George Eliot. "Scenes of clerical life". "The sad fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton"
- "Mr Gilfil's love-story"
- "Janet's repentance". Explanatory notes.
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