Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Author(s)

• Eliot, George
• Henry, Nancy

Bibliographic Information

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot ; edited with introduction and notes by Nancy Henry

（Pickering women's classics）

William Pickering, 1994

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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Details

• NCID: BA2409149X
• ISBN:
  • 1851960864
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: [xliii], 187 p.
• Size: 23 cm.
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 823.8
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13908407