The Lifted Veil & Brother Jacob
by:
George Eliot (author)
Originally published together, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob have been reunited in this splendid edition of two of George Eliot's most beloved short stories. The Lifted Veil is a dark fantasy, an insightful portrait of an artist whose powers of clairvoyance are hardly a gift. In contrast,...
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Originally published together, The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob have been reunited in this splendid edition of two of George Eliot's most beloved short stories. The Lifted Veil is a dark fantasy, an insightful portrait of an artist whose powers of clairvoyance are hardly a gift. In contrast, Brother Jacob is the story of conflict between two brothers and the temptation of sugar. Though sugar invites thoughts of levity today, in the middle of the 19th century, sugar carried overtones of slavery, emancipation and free trade, serious topics of the day that are explored in Eliot's story.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781907727498 (1907727493)
Publish date: May 24th 2010
Publisher: Bibliolis Books
Pages no: 134
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
College,
19th Century,
English Literature,
Short Stories,
Gothic
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