The Lifted Veil
Title | The Lifted Veil PDF eBook |
Author | George Eliot |
Publisher | Xist Publishing |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2015-03-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1623958318 |
The Lifted Veil by George Eliot is a gothic novella in the vein of other Victorian horror stories like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. In The Lifted Veil, the unreliable narrator, Latimer, believes that he is cursed with an otherworldly ability to see into the future and the thoughts of other people. This leads to tragedy as his obsession with his brother's fiancee. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
The Lifted Veil Illustrated
Title | The Lifted Veil Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | George Eliot |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 74 |
Release | 2020-10-13 |
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The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after death, and the power of fate. The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition of horror fiction, which includes such other examples as Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897).
The Lifted Veil
Title | The Lifted Veil PDF eBook |
Author | A. Susan Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
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The Lifted Veil
Title | The Lifted Veil PDF eBook |
Author | George Eliot |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2021-01-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1513275402 |
Latimer is cursed with psychic abilities that allow him to see the future, yet he’s unable to avoid the dark turn of his own life. What many consider a gift, he sees as a curse that has destroyed his ability to have normal relationships. Latimer can hear people’s deepest thoughts and has visions of their impending future. It’s a power he acquired at a young age following a brief illness. Latimer loathes his ability, as it has made it nearly impossible for him to make genuine connections. He unknowingly uncovers dark secrets that reveal the worst of humanity. Despite this foresight, Latimer’s desire to control his own narrative blinds him to an inevitable outcome. The Lifted Veil is a unique entry in Eliot’s literary catalogue. It was released the same year as her debut novel, Adam Bede, and is a stark departure from her usual themes. It highlights a different point-of-view and Eliot’s diverse storytelling ability. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Lifted Veil is both modern and readable.
The Painted Veil
Title | The Painted Veil PDF eBook |
Author | William Somerset Maugham |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Adultery |
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Kitty Fane's affair with Assistant Colonial Secretary Townsend is interrupted when she is taken from Hong Kong by her vengeful bacteriologist husband to work in a cholera epidemic.
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Title | Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings PDF eBook |
Author | A. S. Byatt |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2005-04-07 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0141958723 |
The works collected in this volume provide an illuminating introduction to George Eliot's incisive views on religion, art and science, and the nature and purpose of fiction. Essays such as 'Evangelical Teaching' show her rejecting her earlier religious beliefs, while 'Woman in France' questions conventional ideas about female virtues and marriage, and 'Notes on Form in Art' sets out theories of idealism and realism that she developed further in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. It also includes selections from Eliot's translations of works by Strauss and Feuerbach that challenged many ideas about Christianity; excerpts from her poems; and reviews of writers such as Wollstonecraft, Goethe and Browning. Wonderfully rich in imagery and observations, these pieces reveal the intellectual development of this most challenging and rewarding of writers.
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science
Title | George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Shuttleworth |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1987-03-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521335843 |
This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.