GEORGE ELIOT by Kathryn Hughes ( 9781857028911 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

GEORGE ELIOT
THE LAST VICTORIAN

By:

Kathryn Hughes

Format:

Paperback

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£12.99

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£9.48

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£3.51

ISBN 10:

1857028910

ISBN 13:

9781857028911

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Publisher:

HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

Pub. date:

1 July, 1999

Pages:

560

Description:

Synopsis:

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot, and is the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped her personality - particularly her rejection by her brother Isaac - and her social and intellectual context. Hughes shows how these elements together forged the themes of Eliot's work, her insistence that ideological interests be subordinated to the bonds between human beings - a message that has keen resonance in our own time. With wit and sympathy Kathryn Hughes has written a wonderfully vivid account of Eliot's life that is both moving, stimulating and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

Illustrations:

(2 x 8pp b/w plates)

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Imprint:

Fourth Estate Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Biography) 2000 Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize: Biography 2000

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