Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot

Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fiction by George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Anne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of country clergymen and their communities. These characters interest Eliot not for their theology — she had abandoned conventional Christian belief — but for their humanity. In these stories, we find the earliest signs of the narrative voice, the humanism, and the realism that would make George Eliot one of the greatest novelists of the 1800s. (Introduction by Bruce Pirie)

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Sunday Dec 03, 2023

Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot

Episodes

31 - Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story 21 & Epilogue

32 - Janet’s Repentance 01

33 - Janet’s Repentance 02

34 - Janet’s Repentance 03

35 - Janet’s Repentance 04

36 - Janet’s Repentance 05

37 - Janet’s Repentance 06

38 - Janet’s Repentance 07

39 - Janet’s Repentance 08

40 - Janet’s Repentance 09