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- 97.400 parole
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Readers who enjoy sharp opinions backed by evidence will love this collection, as will admirers of Middlemarch curious about its author's thinking on ethics, women, religion, art and society.
Che cos’è questo libro
What does a novelist do when she sets fiction aside and reviews other people's work? George Eliot, who wrote Middlemarch and Silas Marner, spent her early career writing essays for a magazine. This collection gathers ten of them, from a biography of a restless clergyman to a speech she gives her own character, Felix Holt.
They are quick, funny and sometimes fierce. A short preface points out her chief habit, which is to ask why people act as they do. Each essay tests one idea against evidence.
In questo riassunto
- 1A good biography shows the person, not the paperworkFree
- 2Salons gave French women a share in men's ideas
- 3Preaching for applause can corrupt a preacher's honesty
- 4Wit and humor are different gifts, and Heine joins them
- 5Know how people really live before you plan for them
- 6Silly novels share one flaw, which is ignorance dressed up
- 7A poet's religion shows in what he loves
- 8Beliefs fade through changing habits of mind, not only through argument
- 9Ugly surroundings harm our moral sense
- 10Working men should earn power by knowledge and patience
Punto chiave 1 di 10
A good biography shows the person, not the paperwork
Eliot opens with Carlyle's life of his friend John Sterling. Sterling was an earnest, restless man with a quick mind. His outer life was thin, with poor health, a few months as a curate and many journeys in search of a milder climate. Yet she holds that the book deserves attention.
Why write a second life when Archdeacon Hare had already written one? Eliot agrees with Carlyle that the first book was too apologetic. She wants short, vivid lives in place of three dreary volumes of letters and diaries.
The sharpest quarrel is over Sterling's choice of the Church. Hare thinks orders might have straightened him. Carlyle says the choice was the mistake, since Sterling was an artist and not a saint. Eliot sides with Carlyle. A life is well told when a few chosen strokes make a person understood.
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- LengthAbout 97,400 words
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Questions about I saggi di «George Eliot»
What is The Essays of George Eliot about?
It gathers ten pieces by Eliot, with a preface on her method. They discuss a biography, French salon women, a preacher, Heine, German peasant life, silly novels, the poet Young, rationalism and ornament, and conclude with an address to working men by Felix Holt.
Who is Felix Holt in these essays?
Felix Holt is a character from Eliot's novel of that name. In the closing piece he speaks to working men about using the new vote with knowledge, patience and a sense of duty to the whole nation.
What is Silly Novels by Lady Novelists about?
It is Eliot's comic review of badly written popular fiction by women. She sorts the books into kinds, such as mind and millinery, oracular and Evangelical, and argues that careless books harm the case for women's education.
When were these essays written?
They come from the 1850s and 1860s, when Eliot wrote reviews for magazines before and during her career as a novelist. The preface was added later and discusses her skill at showing why characters act as they do.
Is the book easy to follow?
Each essay stands alone and has a clear subject, so you can start anywhere. Eliot writes with wit and vivid comparisons, quotes her sources generously, and states her main point early, which keeps the argument easy to follow.
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Eliot, George. The Essays of "George Eliot". Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-essays-of-george-eliot.
Eliot, G. (2026). The essays of "George Eliot". Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-essays-of-george-eliot
Eliot, George. The Essays of "George Eliot". Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-essays-of-george-eliot.
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