{"product_id":"the-essays-of-george-eliot","title":"Die Essays von „George Eliot“","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat does art owe us—and what happens when writers and preachers forget the people they claim to understand?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Essays of \"George Eliot\", Mary Ann Evans brings a sharp, funny, often severe eye to art, religion, and society. This collection gathers prose from before and alongside her novels, including reviews and essays on German life, poetry, bad fiction, and the place of women. Her arguments keep returning to real people and the patience they deserve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Natural History of German Life asks how art can widen sympathy. Silly Novels by Lady Novelists takes aim at fiction that pretends to knowledge. Evangelical Teaching: Dr Cumming examines preaching without fellow feeling. Alongside these pieces, essays on women and social change reveal a writer testing what fair judgement demands, both on the page and in daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArt that opens your eyes\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore why Eliot asks artists to deepen our understanding of lives unlike our own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA critic with bite\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enjoy the wit of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists as Eliot challenges false knowledge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWomen judged more fairly\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet her arguments about education and judgement in Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHumour with fellow feeling\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover German Wit: Heinrich Heine, where cutting humour sits beside an awareness of sadness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe ties beneath change\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider how customs, trades, and family bonds shape society across generations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of Middlemarch or Adam Bede who want to trace Eliot's thinking, and anyone who enjoys argument with wit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet Eliot's questioning mind, sharp wit, and patient attention to other lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534568096092,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/01849_en_ebook-front_c03.jpg?v=1792174899","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/die-essays-von-george-eliot","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}