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020 _a9780192837806
082 1 _aFIC ELI
_2
100 1 _aEliot, George
_d(, 1819-1880)
245 1 0 _aScenes of clerical life
_c/ George Eliot ; edited by Thomas A. Noble
260 _aOxford
_b: Oxford University Press
_c, 1999, c1985
300 _a310 p.
_c; 20 cm
490 1 _aOxford World's Classics
520 _aThe three stories that make up the Scenes, ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', ‘Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and ‘Janet's Repentance', foreshadow George Eliot's major work, and their success gave her the confidence to become one of the greatest English novelists. Struck by its humorous irony, the truthfulness of its presentation of the lives of ordinary men and women, and its compassionate acceptance of human weakness. The three stories that make up the Scenes, ‘The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', ‘Mr Gilfil's Love Story', and ‘Janet's Repentance', foreshadow George Eliot's major work, and their success gave her the confidence to become one of the greatest English novelists.
546 _aEnglish
650 4 _aClergy
_z-England
_v--Fiction
651 4 _aEngland
_x-Social life and customs
_y-19th century
_v--Fiction
700 1 _aNoble, Thomas A.
942 _cMO
942 _cMO
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