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Felix Holt (Paperback)
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Felix Holt (Paperback)
Series: Broadview Literary Texts
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When William Blackwood, George Eliot's publisher, first saw the
manuscript of Felix Holt in 1866 he could not contain his
enthusiasm; in a letter to a friend he described the novel as "a
perfect marvel. The time is 1832 just after the passing of the
Reform Bill, and surely such a...series of pictures of English
Life, manners, and conversation never was drawn. You see and hear
the people speaking. Every individual character stands out a
distinct figure." A political radical and a child of the working
class, Felix has lost faith in a political system in which
candidates never represent the interests of the working class.
Harold Transome, the cynical son of wealthy Tory landowners,
embraces radical politics for very different reasons. Both Harold
and Felix vie for the affections of Esther Lyon, and she must weigh
her feelings for them with the social and material goals she has
set for herself. Their personal drama unfolds against the broad
canvas of social and political upheaval of 1830s England. This
edition is based on the text of the first edition of the novel
published in three volumes in 1866, and includes a full
introduction, a wide range of appendices including reviews, as well
as Eliot's "Address to Working Men, by Felix Holt"; "The Legal Plot
of Felix Holt"; and a chronology of Eliot's life and career.
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