Impressions of Theophrastus Such
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such
(Pickering women's classics)
William Pickering, 1994
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Note
Bibliography: p. [xl]-xli
First British edition: Edinburgh ; London : William Blackwood and Sons , 1879
Description and Table of Contents
Description
George Eliot (1819-80) is one of the most widely-read of the 19th-century novelists and story-writers. "Impressions of Theophrastus Such" appeared in 1879, Eliot's last completed work. It consists of 18 short essays narrated by a middle-aged bachelor, Theophrastus.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Note on the text
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter headings: Looking Inward
- Looking Backward
- How We Encourage Research
- A Man Surprised at his Originality
- A Too Deferential Man
- Only Temper
- A Political Molecule
- The Watch-Dog of Knowledge
- A Half Breed
- Currency
- The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb
- 'So Young!'
- How We Come to Give Ourselves False Testimonials, and Believe in Them
- The Too Ready Writer
- Diseases of Small Authorship
- Moral Swindlers
- Shadows of the Coming Race
- The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!
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